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− | Disklabel sits on the physical disk (wd0c, sd0c, or da0s1c) and has an internal table of partitions on this disk. Disklabel itself is a command to create these partitions. | + | Disklabel sits on the physical [[disk breakdown|disk]] (wd0c, sd0c, or da0s1c) and has an internal table of partitions on this disk. Disklabel itself is a command to create these partitions. |
− | In | + | In OpenBSD disklabel can be used interactively with disklabel -E option. This is also the same as the OS install. |
− | OpenBSD allows 16 partitions using disklabel wd0 shows the partition table | + | OpenBSD allows 16 partitions using "disklabel wd0" shows the partition table |
{drive data cut} | {drive data cut} |
Latest revision as of 07:22, 8 September 2010
Disklabel sits on the physical disk (wd0c, sd0c, or da0s1c) and has an internal table of partitions on this disk. Disklabel itself is a command to create these partitions.
In OpenBSD disklabel can be used interactively with disklabel -E option. This is also the same as the OS install.
OpenBSD allows 16 partitions using "disklabel wd0" shows the partition table
{drive data cut} 16 partitions: # size offset fstype [fsize bsize cpg] a: 2104452 63 4.2BSD 2048 16384 1 b: 2104515 2104515 swap c: 50331648 0 unused 0 0 d: 2104515 4209030 4.2BSD 2048 16384 1 e: 44018100 6313545 4.2BSD 2048 16384 1
This is a sample OpenBSD disklabel on a 24 GB drive. Partition a is the root disk, historically the root drive is always on a. Partition b is for swap, partition c represents the entire disk and d is /var filesystem. The rest (partition e) is for the /usr filesystem.