Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!vsi!friedl
From: friedl@vsi.UUCP (Stephen J. Friedl)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Disk maps on unix disks (a standard???)
Message-ID: <618@vsi.UUCP>
Date: 27 Apr 88 00:13:45 GMT
References: <355@tandem.UUCP <1766@cuuxb.ATT.COM>
Organization: V-Systems, Inc. -- Santa Ana, CA
Lines: 18
Keywords: vtoc
Summary: No vtoc on a 3B5

In article <1766@cuuxb.ATT.COM>, dlm@cuuxb.ATT.COM (Dennis L. Mumaugh) writes:
> On UNIX System V for the ATT 3B2/5/15/4000 the second  sector  on
> the  disk  is  the VOLUME TABLE OF CONTENTS (vtoc).  It describes
> the disk's partitioning.

The 3B5 I maintain has no vtoc; the partitions are hardcoded into
the driver, thus limiting partition options.  In addition, the
default partitions overlap and we have to manually insure that
filesystems *don't* overlap.  The machine as installed had a root
partition that overlapped /usr by 100 blocks (the size of the
boot area).  It was an exceedingly unpleasant experience when
root filled up one day...

Maybe Sys V Release 3 for the 3B5 fixes this ha ha ha :-)

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