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From: ed@mtxinu.UUCP (Ed Gould)
Newsgroups: net.bugs.4bsd
Subject: Re: /etc/diskpart
Message-ID: <355@mtxinu.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 23-Apr-85 14:59:18 EST
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Posted: Tue Apr 23 14:59:18 1985
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> My real gripe with diskpart is not the minor flaw in calculating bad
> sector table space requirements.  The real gripe is that diskpart only
> tells me about DEFAULT partitions for entries in /etc/disktab, while
> newfs uses what is really STORED in /etc/disktab. ...

The first line of diskpart(8) reads "Diskpart is used to calculate the disk
partition sizes based on the default rules used at Berkeley."  It's
intended use is to generate the first cut at both the disktab and
kernel driver entries, not to *report* the state of either.

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