SunOS 4.x boot disk layout

[Jules Richardson]

On Sun, 2005-03-27 at 10:57 -0600, Doc Shipley wrote:
> Jules Richardson wrote:
> > (Incidentally I noticed that linux fdisk defaults to reporting the
> > blocks count in 1024-byte blocks, rather than the 512-byte blocks that
> > the disk itself is using)
> 
>    That confuses the students in my Linux classes as well, since fdisk 
> reports in 1024-byte blocks even on ext partitions that have 
> 4096-byte-block filesystems.  :)

Sure, at the filesystem level disk blocks might be combined - I'm just
surprised that fdisk doesn't report the block counts using the block
size of whatever media it's dealing with. It obviously knows that it's
dealing with a disk that uses 512-byte blocks, but it still shows the
block counts as though they were 1024 byte blocks. Just struck me as
odd!

I'll be back at the museum tomorrow where I've left the DSP
supercomputer system that this hard disk is part of, so hopefully I'll
have a chance to do some more work on it and try to fix its console
port. Darn thing's too big to bring home with me! :-)

cheers

Jules