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From: John Capo <jc@irbs.com>
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Subject: Re: Slice errors
To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans)
Date: Mon, 27 Mar 1995 08:32:17 -0500 (EST)
Cc: freebsd-current@freefall.cdrom.com (freebsd-current)
In-Reply-To: <199503270536.PAA08650@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Mar 27, 95 03:36:47 pm
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Bruce Evans writes:
> 
> >> The data for partition 0 is:
> >> <UNUSED>
> >> The data for partition 1 is:
> >> <UNUSED>
> >> The data for partition 2 is:
> >> <UNUSED>
> >> The data for partition 3 is:
> >> sysid 165,(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD)
> >>     start 0, size 50000 (24 Meg), flag 80
> >> 	beg: cyl 0/ sector 1/ head 0;
> >> 	end: cyl 1023/ sector 63/ head 255
> 
> >Use fdisk -u to correct the partition table so that size==size of
> >your BSD c or d partition and things should be fine.  What you see
> >above is the bogus partition table that gets installed if you install
> >new boot blocks.
> 
> This advice no longer applies.  The bogus partition table is specially
> handled to make it work.  Changing it risks introducing bugs and
> changes will be blown away by new boot blocks.
> 
> Bruce
> 

Maybe that is why I only write new boot blocks when it absolutely
necessary.  The label was found and I was able to use the drive.
I just wanted to get rid of the "raw partition size != slice size"
message.  I had to either increase the size of the c partition,
which disklabel would not do for some reaseon, or reduce the slice
size.

Is there a reason that writing boot blocks can't re-write whatever
partition table exixts?

-- 
John Capo