Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2009 16:51:44 +0200 From: Marius Strobl <marius@alchemy.franken.de> To: Ruben de Groot <fbsd-sparc64@bzerk.org> Cc: sparc64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: problem with sunlabel/gpart Message-ID: <20090612145144.GA11613@alchemy.franken.de> In-Reply-To: <20090612110250.GA50214@ei.bzerk.org> References: <20090612110250.GA50214@ei.bzerk.org>
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On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 01:02:50PM +0200, Ruben de Groot wrote: > > I wonder if somebody can explain this: > In a netra X1 I have 2 identical 150GB disks. One was partitioned by > sysinstall like this: > > # sunlabel ad0 > # /dev/ad0: > text: FreeBSD149G cyl 47955 alt 2 hd 16 sec 63 > bytes/sector: 512 > sectors/cylinder: 1008 > sectors/unit: 48338640 > > 8 partitions: > # > # Size is in sectors. > # Offset is in cylinders. > # size offset > # ---------- ---------- > a: 1049328 0 > b: 2097648 1041 > c: 48338640 0 > d: 4195296 3122 > e: 1049328 7284 > f: 33555312 8325 > g: 104858208 41614 > h: 165774672 145640 > > Notice that the c partition is smaller than the entire disk. Trying > to copy this partition scheme to ad1 using sunlabel fails with: > > sunlabel: partition g extends past end of disk > > gpart shows: > > morninglightmountain# gpart show ad0 > => 0 48338640 ad0 VTOC8 (149G) > 0 1049328 1 !0 (512M) > 1049328 2097648 2 !0 (1.0G) > 3146976 4195296 4 !0 (2.0G) > 7342272 1049328 5 !0 (512M) > 8391600 33555312 6 !0 (16G) > 41946912 104858208 7 !0 (50G) > 146805120 165774672 8 !0 (79G) > > morninglightmountain# gpart show ad1 > => 0 48338640 ad1 VTOC8 (149G) > 0 48338640 - free - (23G) > > Off course, I could just use sysinstall again to partition the second > disk, but I'm curious as to why this is happening. > Hrm, are/were there existing labels on both ad0 and ad1 from a previous OS installation which limit their sizes to 24GB? What version of FreeBSD is this? Marius
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