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From: pwd@pid.UUCP (Philip W. Dalrymple)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: C Partition
Message-ID: <193@pid.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 2-Oct-85 05:10:18 EDT
Article-I.D.: pid.193
Posted: Wed Oct  2 05:10:18 1985
Date-Received: Thu, 3-Oct-85 07:25:19 EDT
References: <1579@brl-tgr.ARPA> <165@l5.uucp>
Reply-To: pwd@pid.UUCP (Philip W. Dalrymple)
Organization: P & I Design, Inc. Atlanta
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Summary: 

In article <165@l5.uucp> gnu@l5.uucp (John Gilmore) writes:
>In article <1579@brl-tgr.ARPA>, cottrell@nbs-vms.ARPA (COTTRELL, JAMES) writes:
>> > >About that c partition... c accesses the whole disk including 
>> > >the space reserved bad blocks. 
>> > Wizards:  Is this really true?
>> Yes.
>
>Sun Unix has never included the bad block area in the partitions.
>That sounds like a suicidal idea to me.  Then again, Sun Unix puts
>a *label* on the disk which identifies where the partitions are, rather

The Fortune does the same thing (they call it the configuration and it
also containes the bad block list ).


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Philip Dalrymple
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