From owner-freebsd-sparc Tue Dec 17 4:51: 5 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-sparc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E82937B401 for ; Tue, 17 Dec 2002 04:51:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from cc-gw.1anetworks.net (cc-gw.1anetworks.net [193.243.179.83]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E1F4C43ED4 for ; Tue, 17 Dec 2002 04:51:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brian@ukip.com) Received: from BRI (brian.1anetworks.net [212.36.98.200]) by parma.1anetworks.net (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.3) with SMTP id MAA18997 for ; Tue, 17 Dec 2002 12:50:48 GMT From: "Bri" To: Subject: Disk Partition problem Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 12:47:13 -0000 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org if I try and use disklabel(8) to edit the slices information i get lighthouse# disklabel -e ad1 disklabel: ioctl DIOCGDINFO: Operation not supported by device I know this is a known problem but if i can't use disklabel to change the partition offset how am I meant to change it if I can't access the partition table as I have a damaged partition that I want to fix and I think I know where is starts on the disk and want to see if I'm right. Any ideas people! Bri, To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message