C Partition

[Philip W. Dalrymple]

In article <165 at l5.uucp> gnu at l5.uucp (John Gilmore) writes:
>In article <1579 at brl-tgr.ARPA>, cottrell at 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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