From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Sep 20 01:44:31 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ABA4516A4B3 for ; Sat, 20 Sep 2003 01:44:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp-send.myrealbox.com (smtp-send.myrealbox.com [192.108.102.143]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0DEB143FBF for ; Sat, 20 Sep 2003 01:44:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from n.b@myrealbox.com) Received: from cronos.home.vsb N.B@smtp-send.myrealbox.com [81.83.202.166] $ on Novell NetWare via secured & encrypted transport (TLS); Sat, 20 Sep 2003 02:44:34 -0600 From: Guy Van Sanden To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1064047468.9788.14.camel@cronos.home.vsb> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.4-1tex Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2003 10:44:28 +0200 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Disklabe oddity X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2003 08:44:31 -0000 I get a strange message from disklabel: Warning, partition c doesn't start at 0! Warning, partition c doesn't cover the whole unit! Warning, An incorrect partition c may cause problems for standard system utilities What does this mean? The disk was formatted by the FreeBSD install procedure. The system is an older Digital PC (3500) PII 333 Mhz. The disk is a 40 GB IDE drive (WD) BTW, I'm looking for a safe way to 'grow' my rootfs, I've looked arround before, but I'm still not clear on the right procedure for it. I'm considering reinstalling the system with 5.2, reformatting the disk, but I don't know if this will clear the error. It will have a larger root though. Thanks for any help/suggestions. # disklabel -r /dev/ad0s1c # /dev/ad0s1c: type: ESDI disk: ad0s1 label: flags: bytes/sector: 512 sectors/track: 63 tracks/cylinder: 255 sectors/cylinder: 16065 cylinders: 4865 sectors/unit: 78165360 rpm: 3600 interleave: 1 trackskew: 0 cylinderskew: 0 headswitch: 0 # milliseconds track-to-track seek: 0 # milliseconds drivedata: 0 8 partitions: # size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] a: 327680 63 4.2BSD 2048 16384 20488 # (Cyl. 0*- 20*) b: 1007984 327743 swap # (Cyl. 20*- 83*) c: 78156162 63 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 0*- 4864*) d: 1007616 1335727 4.2BSD 2048 16384 62984 # (Cyl. 83*- 145*) e: 1024000 2343343 4.2BSD 2048 16384 64008 # (Cyl. 145*- 209*) f: 18120704 3367343 4.2BSD 2048 16384 28552 # (Cyl. 209*- 1337*) g: 20971520 21488047 4.2BSD 2048 16384 28552 # (Cyl. 1337*- 2642*) h: 35696658 42459567 4.2BSD 2048 16384 28512 # (Cyl. 2642*- 4864*) Warning, partition c doesn't start at 0! Warning, partition c doesn't cover the whole unit! Warning, An incorrect partition c may cause problems for standard system utilities