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Re: ccdconfig not giving me all available space?

From: Todd C. Miller (Todd.Millercourtesan.com)
Date: Fri Sep 02 2005 - 17:43:26 CDT


In message <200509021251.46189.sabowskispeakeasy.net>
        so spake Erik Sabowski (sabowski):

> i thought that leaving 63 sectors free at the start of each disk would be
> enough room, but apparently not. when i bumped it up to an offset of 3120
> sectors, it worked perfectly.

You need to leave at least 8192 bytes free. This corresponds to
the BBSIZE #define in <ufs/ffs/fs.h>.

In general, it is simplest to just leave the first cylinder free.

 - todd