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[openbeos] Aw: Re: Disk structure

  • From: Marcus Overhagen <marcusoverhagen@xxxxxxxx>
  • To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2006 10:12:55 +0100 (CET)
Stephan Assmus <superstippi@xxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi Paulo,
> 
> > Considering a system with only one OpenBFS partition, the first 3 disk 
> > blocks shoud be organized in this way?
> 
> I am not very knowledgable when it comes to this stuff, but it looks 
> correct to me. Maybe others have more insight?

There can be a lot of unused space before the first partition, because 
traditionally
a partition start is aligned to the next cylinder boundary.

Modern Windows fdisk is a little more sane and aligns partitions to 8 MB 
boundaries.

regards
Marcus

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