From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Nov 11 15:47:40 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from apollo.backplane.com (apollo.backplane.com [216.240.41.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF0A237B41C; Sun, 11 Nov 2001 15:47:36 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dillon@localhost) by apollo.backplane.com (8.11.6/8.9.1) id fABNlUS48412; Sun, 11 Nov 2001 15:47:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dillon) Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2001 15:47:30 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Dillon Message-Id: <200111112347.fABNlUS48412@apollo.backplane.com> To: Cyrille Lefevre Cc: John De Boskey , Stable List Subject: Re: "disklabel -rw ar0 auto" breaks HPT raid0+1 References: <200111112217.fABMHw017887@gits.dyndns.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG : :Matthew Dillon wrote: :> There is a section near the end of the 'disklabel' manual page that :> describes how to partition a disk with a real slice entry instead of :> dangerously dedicated mode. : :are you talking about the "BUG" section ? it only say that disklabel :doesn't clobber the partition table. the problem is that it overwrite :the following 15 sectors w/ boot2 while the first 10 sectors are used :by the RAID hardware... do you see the problem. using fdisk, disklabel :writes it's boot informations starting at sector 64 since the first :half cylinder is reserved by fdisk. so, it doesn't clobber anything. :is this explanation more clear ? : :Cyrille. :-- :Cyrille Lefevre mailto:clefevre@citeweb.net No, the EXAMPLES section. -Matt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message