Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2008 22:18:57 -0800 From: Marcel Moolenaar <xcllnt@mac.com> To: obrien@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de> Subject: Re: "geometry does not match label" Message-ID: <42CB7138-FF39-467E-8930-F507C2A04C3D@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <20081226085317.GA26808@dragon.NUXI.org> References: <gij9kg$23u$1@lorvorc.mips.inka.de> <95872328-4FBF-4DAD-98DE-024FF53A4505@mac.com> <20081226085317.GA26808@dragon.NUXI.org>
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On Dec 26, 2008, at 12:53 AM, David O'Brien wrote: > On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 06:43:49PM -0800, Marcel Moolenaar wrote: >> On Dec 20, 2008, at 9:22 AM, Christian Weisgerber wrote: >>> partition c: partition extends past end of unit >>> bsdlabel: partition c doesn't start at 0! >>> bsdlabel: An incorrect partition c may cause problems for standard >>> system >>> utilities >>> partition h: partition extends past end of unit >>> >>> I don't know where this is coming from--the system was installed >>> about a year ago with standard sysinstall--and I don't see what's >>> supposed to be wrong. >> >> Apparently sysinstall creates faulty disklabels. > > Can you elaborate? I'm getting it on several machines also. > Right now, I'm trying to upgrade to a larger disk in one machine > tonight... Xmas present to myself... sysinstall/libdisk uses the media size and not the slice size to calculate the various fields in the disklabel. That's why the 'c' partition extends past the end of the unit. -- Marcel Moolenaar xcllnt@mac.com
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