[issue1622] devfs doesn't create my ad4s3 (macbook)
Matthew Dillon
dillon at apollo.backplane.com
Tue Dec 8 12:24:25 PST 2009
:It seems gpt starts numbering slices at 0, so the usual ad4s1 is ad4s0, ...=
:=20
:leading to the fact that the expected ad4s3 is at ad4s2.
:
:In any case, I'll update our GPT code to fix some other issues (for example=
:=20
:the slice type is always set to 1).
Yah, I'm responsible for the numbering. With GPT 's0' is index entry 0
in the GPT. I did it that way so the index number in the GPT table
matched the slice number in the device name because it was really
confusing when they were 1-off.
I don't know what the best solution is but numbering from 0 has caused
us other headaches so if you want to change it back to numbering from 1
it's ok with me. It will mess up anyone using GPT right now, thougg,
they will have to fix up their fstab and such.
: 40 409600 0 GPT part - EFI System
: 409640 293391 1 GPT part - Apple HFS
: 703031 400000 - =20
: 1103031 185671 2 GPT part - MS/Linux Basic Data
: 1288702 808417 - =20
: 2097119 32 - Sec GPT table
: 2097151 1 - Sec GPT header
So e.g. ^ index 0, 1 and 2 corresponds to s0, s1, and s2
right now.
:# newfs_msdos /dev/ad0s2=20
:/dev/ad0s2: 185276 sectors in 46319 FAT16 clusters (2048 bytes/cluster)
:bps=3D512 spc=3D4 res=3D1 nft=3D2 rde=3D512 mid=3D0xf8 spf=3D181 spt=3D63 h=
:ds=3D256 hid=3D1103031=20
:bsec=3D185671
:
:Observe carefully that the bsec of the newfs actually matches the number of=
:=20
:sectors of the third partition, with gpt index 2.
:
:
:Cheers,
:Alex Hornung
-Matt
Matthew Dillon
<dillon at backplane.com>
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