From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 12 14:34:13 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9267315512 for ; Fri, 12 Mar 1999 14:34:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id JAA26478; Sat, 13 Mar 1999 09:03:45 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id JAA06141; Sat, 13 Mar 1999 09:03:45 +1030 (CST) Message-ID: <19990313090345.G429@lemis.com> Date: Sat, 13 Mar 1999 09:03:45 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Brad Knowles , Karl Pielorz Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Vinum questions? References: <19990312153715.030336@relay.skynet.be> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: <19990312153715.030336@relay.skynet.be>; from Brad Knowles on Fri, Mar 12, 1999 at 03:37:15PM +0100 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Friday, 12 March 1999 at 15:37:15 +0100, Brad Knowles wrote: > On Fri, Mar 12, 1999, Karl Pielorz 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 -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message