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From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
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On 2006-03-03 10:02, Grant Peel <gpeel@thenetnow.com> wrote:
> This drive is a SCSI 74 GIG drive.
>
> The machine has been freezing on me lately, out of the blue,
> with no log errors enetered. No crash dumps created. The only
> fix is to cold boot.
>
> Here is the disklabel output Should I be worried?
>
> root on s1# disklabel /dev/da0s1
> # /dev/da0s1:
> 8 partitions:
> #        size   offset    fstype   [fsize bsize bps/cpg]
>  a:   2097152  2097152    4.2BSD     2048 16384 28552
>  b:   2097152        0      swap
>  c: 143363997        0    unused        0     0         # "raw" part, don't edit
>  d:   4194304  4194304    4.2BSD     2048 16384 28552
>  e:  12582912  8388608    4.2BSD     2048 16384 28552
>  f: 122392477 20971520    4.2BSD     2048 16384 28552
> root on s1#
>
> root on s1# disklabel /dev/da0s1a
> disklabel: /dev/da0s1a: no valid label found

The /dev/da0s1a device *is* already part of a disk label.  You
shouldn't normally install a label or use any 'label' found on
the start of such a partition.

> root on s1# disklabel /dev/da0s1b
> root on s1# disklabel /dev/da0s1c
> root on s1# disklabel /dev/da0s1d

Similarly, looking at a 'label' here doesn't help at all.