SunOS 4.x boot disk layout

[Doc Shipley]

Jules Richardson wrote:

> 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'm allowed to say this, as a long-time Linux supporter and bigot.

   A LOT of Linux tools are "dumbed-down" to be accessible to people 
like I was when I first used it.  I had a little DOS experience, no Unix 
or under-the-covers network or security knowledge at all, and the 
user-friendly mods and shortcuts made it much easier and much less foreign.

   Think about root's home directory in most Linux distributions - /root 
exists because noobs like me were running the system day-to-day as root, 
and mucking up the real root directory.

> 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! :-)

   I'd think you'd find a way....  ;)


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