From owner-freebsd-sparc Tue Dec 17 5: 0: 1 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 573DF37B401 for ; Tue, 17 Dec 2002 05:00:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from mailhub.fokus.gmd.de (mailhub.fokus.gmd.de [193.174.154.14]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E7CB943EDA for ; Tue, 17 Dec 2002 04:59:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brandt@fokus.gmd.de) Received: from beagle (beagle [193.175.132.100]) by mailhub.fokus.gmd.de (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id gBHCxtJ14705; Tue, 17 Dec 2002 13:59:55 +0100 (MET) Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 13:59:55 +0100 (CET) From: Harti Brandt To: Bri Cc: freebsd-sparc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Disk Partition problem In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20021217135740.P17977-100000@beagle.fokus.gmd.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 On Tue, 17 Dec 2002, Bri wrote: B>if I try and use disklabel(8) to edit the slices information i get B> B>lighthouse# disklabel -e ad1 B>disklabel: ioctl DIOCGDINFO: Operation not supported by device B> B>I know this is a known problem but if i can't use disklabel to change the B>partition offset how am I meant to change it if I can't access the partition B>table as I have a damaged partition that I want to fix and I think I know B>where is starts on the disk and want to see if I'm right. You must boot from the CD and use sysinstall to change the label. There are currently two problems: - disklabel does not support sun labels - geom forbidds to write to the label if any of the partitions is active harti -- harti brandt, http://www.fokus.gmd.de/research/cc/cats/employees/hartmut.brandt/private brandt@fokus.gmd.de, brandt@fokus.fhg.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message