From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun May 4 06:01:16 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C2F5837B401 for ; Sun, 4 May 2003 06:01:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp-send.myrealbox.com (smtp-send.myrealbox.com [192.108.102.143]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 40C5C43F85 for ; Sun, 4 May 2003 06:01:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wa1ter@myrealbox.com) Received: from myrealbox.com wa1ter@smtp-send.myrealbox.com [64.175.106.241] $ on Novell NetWare via secured & encrypted transport (TLS); Sun, 04 May 2003 06:01:09 -0700 Message-ID: <3EB50F10.3010001@myrealbox.com> Date: Sun, 04 May 2003 06:01:04 -0700 From: walt Organization: none User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.4a) Gecko/20030502 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: bsdlabel question X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 04 May 2003 13:01:17 -0000 Hi Poul-Henning, #bsdlabel ad0s3 # /dev/ad0s3: 8 partitions: # size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] a: 15321596 140974726 4.2BSD 0 0 0 b: 1048576 139926150 swap c: 16370235 139926150 unused 0 0 # "raw" part, don't edit partition a: offset past end of unit partition a: partition extends past end of unit partition b: offset past end of unit partition b: partition extends past end of unit partition c: offset past end of unit 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 Do you really want all of those scary error messages, given that all of the numbers are correct? My question, I suppose, is whether bsdlabel should give some historical context about whether the offset is relative to the start of the partition or the start of the disk. This could be very confusing to a new user.