From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 5 0:14:16 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 CB50737B401 for ; Wed, 5 Mar 2003 00:14:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from hobbiton.shire.net (hobbiton.shire.net [206.71.64.250]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1977243F85 for ; Wed, 5 Mar 2003 00:14:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from chad@shire.net) Received: from [204.228.149.206] (helo=shire.net) by hobbiton.shire.net with asmtp (Exim 4.10) id 18qKz4-0002iL-00; Tue, 04 Mar 2003 15:34:02 -0700 Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2003 15:33:28 -0700 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v551) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org To: Mike Meyer From: Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC In-Reply-To: <15973.10165.354252.191640@guru.mired.org> Message-Id: <523325EB-4E91-11D7-949E-003065A70D30@shire.net> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.551) Subject: Re: partition is "e" should be "a" -- how to fix? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-3.5 required=6.5 tests=IN_REP_TO,SUBJ_ENDS_IN_Q_MARK version=2.31 X-Spam-Level: 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 On Tuesday, Mar 4, 2003, at 15:24 US/Mountain, Mike Meyer wrote: > In , Chad Leigh -- > Shire.Net LLC typed: >> On Tuesday, Mar 4, 2003, at 14:55 US/Mountain, Mike Meyer wrote: >> 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. yeah, not very interesting at this particular moment :-) Back in my ultrix days I remember we could overlap things and that was something we had to watch for by hand... > > Try booting the fixit cdrom, and doing the disklabel to chagne e to a > without mounting e. > ok, I will see if I can scare up a CDrom drive :-) thanks Chad To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message