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disk disktab front porch back porch
Q: What are the frontporch (fp) and the backporch (bp) shown in disktab?
A: The front and back porches are for "non-file-system stuff". The front porch has:
- the disk label
- two copies of the boot program
The backporch is currently unused by the SCSI hard disk driver.
QA435
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