From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 4 14:24:57 2003 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 9A59037B401 for ; Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:24:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from mired.org (ip68-97-54-220.ok.ok.cox.net [68.97.54.220]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7565143FAF for ; Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:24:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mwm-dated-1047248693.d3b6dd@mired.org) Received: (qmail 36977 invoked from network); 4 Mar 2003 22:24:53 -0000 Received: from localhost.mired.org (HELO guru.mired.org) (127.0.0.1) by localhost.mired.org with SMTP; 4 Mar 2003 22:24:53 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15973.10165.354252.191640@guru.mired.org> Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2003 16:24:53 -0600 To: Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: partition is "e" should be "a" -- how to fix? In-Reply-To: References: <15973.8372.371147.943043@guru.mired.org> X-Mailer: VM 7.07 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`; h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ From: Mike Meyer X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/0.70 (Pensive) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In , Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC typed: > On Tuesday, Mar 4, 2003, at 14:55 US/Mountain, Mike Meyer wrote: > >> However, I am wanting some second opinions on this, > >> and since I am not a disklabel guru, some guidance on how to use > >> disklabel > >> without screwing up my system would be appreciated. > > Basically, run "disklabel -e /dev/da0s1". That will create a temporary > > file with the disklabel in it, and open an editor on that file. Delete > > the line - if it exists - for a, copy the e line to where it was, and > > then change the initial e to an a. Then save the file and exit the > > editor. Fix your fstab to refer to da0s1a instead of da0s1e, and > > reboot. > Okay, should I be able to have an "a" and an "e" that overlap? > Disklabel doesn't seem to want to let me do this. Yes, you should, but apparently someone decided not to allow that. Personally, that strikes me as a being bogus, but fixing it requires hacking disklabel. Try booting the fixit cdrom, and doing the disklabel to chagne e to a without mounting e. http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message