Date: Tue, 28 Mar 1995 00:03:13 +1000 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: bde@zeta.org.au, jc@irbs.com Cc: freebsd-current@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: Slice errors Message-ID: <199503271403.AAA20934@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>> 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. >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. The current version of disklabel can handle it (you must initialize su# in disktab and/or secperunit in `disklabel -e'). You can safely increase the size of the c partition to the size of the disk without changing the size of the partitions with file systems (keep them ending on cylinder boundaries). >Is there a reason that writing boot blocks can't re-write whatever >partition table exixts? disklabel(8) doesn't know that the partition table exists. It did in 1.1.5. That was wrong. Bruce
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