Trashed Disk Labels Under Sun OS 3.5

[Chris Torek]

In article <557 at augean.OZ> idall at augean.OZ (Ian Dall) writes:
>Well, at SysV got something right.

(sort of)

>I think that it is a really bad idea to have swap/mkfs etc. have special
>code to skip the first cylinder if it is the "a" partition.

They should not skip the first cylinder; that would be wasteful.

They should (and do) skip the label sector (on 4.3BSD-tahoe).  File
systems furthermore skip the boot block area.
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