From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 3 15:34:46 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A8631106566B for ; Thu, 3 Dec 2009 15:34:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from psteele@maxiscale.com) Received: from server505.appriver.com (server505e.appriver.com [98.129.35.9]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 719248FC14 for ; Thu, 3 Dec 2009 15:34:46 +0000 (UTC) X-Policy: GLOBAL - maxiscale.com X-Primary: psteele@maxiscale.com X-Note: This Email was scanned by AppRiver SecureTide X-ALLOW: psteele@maxiscale.com ALLOWED X-Virus-Scan: V- X-Note: Spam Tests Failed: X-Country-Path: UNITED STATES->UNITED STATES->UNITED STATES X-Note-Sending-IP: 98.129.23.15 X-Note-Reverse-DNS: ht02.exg5.exghost.com X-Note-WHTLIST: psteele@maxiscale.com X-Note: User Rule Hits: X-Note: Global Rule Hits: 112 113 114 115 119 120 131 218 X-Note: Mail Class: ALLOWEDSENDER X-Note: Headers Injected Received: from [98.129.23.15] (HELO ht02.exg5.exghost.com) by server505.appriver.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.2.14) with ESMTPS id 15422005 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 03 Dec 2009 09:34:51 -0600 Received: from mbx03.exg5.exghost.com ([169.254.1.164]) by ht02.exg5.exghost.com ([98.129.23.15]) with mapi; Thu, 3 Dec 2009 09:34:45 -0600 From: Peter Steele To: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Date: Thu, 3 Dec 2009 09:34:44 -0600 Thread-Topic: Is this a correct disk label? Thread-Index: Acp0LiM9ggq1pZmPRwCY3NV8q9GAkA== Message-ID: <7B9397B189EB6E46A5EE7B4C8A4BB7CB33C6BA80@MBX03.exg5.exghost.com> Accept-Language: en-US Content-Language: en-US X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: acceptlanguage: en-US MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: Is this a correct disk label? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 03 Dec 2009 15:34:46 -0000 I have a USB disk that I partitioned with fdisk and bsdlabel. I used the -w= option of bsdlabel to write a standard label. The label itself looks fine: # bsdlabel da0s1 # /dev/da0s1: 8 partitions: # size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] a: 7823576 16 4.2BSD 2048 16384 28528 c: 7823592 0 unused 0 0 # "raw" part, don't= edit What puzzles me are the entries I see under /dev/da* # ll /dev/da0* crw-r----- 1 root operator 0, 181 Dec 3 15:29 /dev/da0 crw-r----- 1 root operator 0, 183 Dec 3 15:29 /dev/da0s1 crw-r----- 1 root operator 0, 185 Dec 3 15:29 /dev/da0s1a crw-r----- 1 root operator 0, 185 Dec 3 15:29 /dev/da0s1a crw-r----- 1 root operator 0, 186 Dec 3 15:29 /dev/da0s1c crw-r----- 1 root operator 0, 192 Dec 3 15:29 /dev/da0s1ca Why are there two da0s1a entries and this da0s1ca entry? That doesn't look = right to me.