Disk Partitioning, ULTRIX

[Greg Pavlov]

  The disktab file on a DECStation 3100 here includes the following in a
  comment at the top of the file:

  "...all disks have no defaults for the 'h' partition.  The strategy here
   is that 'a' always has the same amount for all disks.  The 'b' partition
   is four times 'a' while 'c' is always the entire disk.  The sum of 'd','e',
   and 'f' is equal to 'g' which is everything else."

 Ok, we pay attention to the "rule" for the 'c' partition.  But none of the
 rest make any sense to us, at least most of the time.  Where does these algo-
 rithms come from ?  What is in ULTRIX that penalizes ignoring them ?

  greg pavlov, fstrf, amherst, ny