From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Aug 27 23:56:55 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rz.uni-ulm.de (sirius-giga.rz.uni-ulm.de [134.60.241.36]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C870137B422 for ; Sun, 27 Aug 2000 23:56:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gmx.de (lilith.wohnheim.uni-ulm.de [134.60.106.64]) by mail.rz.uni-ulm.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA01836; Mon, 28 Aug 2000 08:56:47 +0200 (MEST) Message-ID: <39AA0D30.1DBD185@gmx.de> Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 08:56:48 +0200 From: Siegbert Baude X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.16-9mdkfb i686) X-Accept-Language: de, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kevin Oberman , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problems with dd (probably a disk labeling problem) References: <200008280145.e7S1jSU08497@ptavv.es.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Kevin Oberman wrote: > = > I have been trying to copy my root partition between identically sized > partitions on two drives. I do tried doing this "stand-alone' but got > a fixlabel error: > dscheck(#ad/0x20010): fixlabel: raw partition size > slice size > fixlabel: raw partition offset !=3D slice offset In the last weeks I tried to work into this fdisk and disklabel stuff. I always found it to be some piece of useful information, what kernel spits out, when booted verbosely (boot -v). The kernel=B4s idea of slice sizes are then summarized (some kind of info I often would have be appreciated to be available from userland, when there are non-FBSD filesystems in extended partitions). I also found that this error appears during bootup on a perfectly running system, if there is by accident a disklabel on a slice (or extended partition), where there is no FBSD-filesystem on it. I had a disklabel for example on ad2s4, which is my container for the extended partitions and therefore shouldn=B4t have one. Maybe you just created a disklabel somewhere else by a typo. Hope this helps Siegbert To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message