Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2008 10:51:06 -0400 From: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu> To: Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@freebsd.org> Cc: andys <a.smith@ukgrid.net>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bsdlabel partiton c error message on new install Message-ID: <20081020145106.GD38387@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <20081017122207.GA21157@icarus.home.lan> References: <E1KqoDB-000OIe-Cg@alpha.ukgrid.net> <20081017122207.GA21157@icarus.home.lan>
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On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 05:22:07AM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 02:13:45PM +0200, andys wrote: > > Hi, > > > > on a newly installed FreeBSD 7.0 system on a dell 1950 server I see the > > following error from bsdlabel. Is there any known issues with this or is > > the only reasonable explanation that I have managed to mess it up without > > even knowing? :P And should I manually change the partition c to fix the > > prob? Is this safe to do? > > > > bsdlabel -A /dev/da0s1 > > # /dev/da0s1: > > type: SCSI > > disk: da0s1 > > label: > > flags: > > bytes/sector: 512 > > sectors/track: 63 > > tracks/cylinder: 255 > > sectors/cylinder: 16065 > > cylinders: 17750 > > sectors/unit: 285155328 > > rpm: 3600 > > interleave: 1 > > trackskew: 0 > > cylinderskew: 0 > > headswitch: 0 # milliseconds > > track-to-track seek: 0 # milliseconds > > drivedata: 0 > > > > 8 partitions: > > # size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] > > a: 20971520 0 4.2BSD 2048 16384 28552 > > b: 20971520 75497472 swap > > c: 285153687 0 unused 0 0 # "raw" part, > > don't edit > > d: 20971520 20971520 4.2BSD 2048 16384 28552 > > e: 20971520 41943040 4.2BSD 2048 16384 28552 > > f: 12582912 62914560 4.2BSD 2048 16384 28552 > > bsdlabel: partition c doesn't cover the whole unit! > > bsdlabel: An incorrect partition c may cause problems for standard system > > utilities > > It's complaining that 285153687 (see "c" partition) does not equal > 285155328 (see "sectors/unit" up top). > > > thanks for any advice, Im not really confident with the FreeBSD disk > > management as I havent used it much, > > I'm left wondering why you're messing around with bsdlabel on a FreeBSD > install in the first place. :-) Do you mean - as apposed to letting sysinstall handle it? Yah, I would let sysinstall do the disk mangling, but maybe he did something else. ////jerry > > -- > | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | > | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | > | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | > | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB | > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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