Date: Sat, 13 Mar 1999 09:03:45 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Brad Knowles <blk@skynet.be>, Karl Pielorz <kpielorz@tdx.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Vinum questions? Message-ID: <19990313090345.G429@lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <19990312153715.030336@relay.skynet.be>; from Brad Knowles on Fri, Mar 12, 1999 at 03:37:15PM %2B0100 References: <19990312153715.030336@relay.skynet.be>
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On Friday, 12 March 1999 at 15:37:15 +0100, Brad Knowles wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 12, 1999, Karl Pielorz <kpielorz@tdx.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> "c" is a bad partition to use, it's the 'compatability' partition... You
>> should try to avoid it with 3.0 etc.
>
> Yeah, I saw Greg's note on this when I had previously searched the
> archive, but wasn't sure if this was fixed in his latest (4 Mar
> 1999) update.
This is a feature, not a bug. I explicitly exclude c:
for (part = 'a'; part < 'i'; part++)
if (part != 'c') { /* don't do the c partition */
I've explained the reasoning here in an earlier message. It won't be
"fixed".
>> What happens if you run /sysinstall/stand, and try to
>> label/partition them that way? (i.e. allocate the whole disk
>> (dangerously dedicated) to FreeBSD, then slap say a 1Gb partition
>> on it - make sure the system can newfs it etc. - then try running
>> disklabel on the drive?)
>
> I just did this, and managed to actually get it to put a filesystem
> on /dev/da1s1e, which I presume I can then go in and blow away with
> `disklabel -er`. That took a little while to do just one disk, so this
> is going to be a somewhat long and laborious task. However, I suspect
> that you've given me just the information I needed, and I'll let you know
> if I have any further problems.
This isn't necessary. It would be a lot easier to help if you'd
describe your problems.
Greg
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