From owner-freebsd-geom@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 15 12:36:03 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 721C41065673 for ; Mon, 15 Dec 2008 12:36:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gcubfg-freebsd-geom@m.gmane.org) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C0A08FC08 for ; Mon, 15 Dec 2008 12:36:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gcubfg-freebsd-geom@m.gmane.org) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1LCCg3-0006Vr-TK for freebsd-geom@freebsd.org; Mon, 15 Dec 2008 12:35:59 +0000 Received: from 195.208.174.178 ([195.208.174.178]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 15 Dec 2008 12:35:59 +0000 Received: from vadim_nuclight by 195.208.174.178 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 15 Dec 2008 12:35:59 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org From: Vadim Goncharov Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2008 12:35:51 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Nuclear Lightning @ Tomsk, TPU AVTF Hostel Lines: 27 Message-ID: References: <4939287C.3020208@icyb.net.ua> <494637A3.9080807@icyb.net.ua> X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 195.208.174.178 X-Comment-To: Andriy Gapon User-Agent: slrn/0.9.8.1 (FreeBSD) Sender: news Subject: Re: partition covering the whole slice [repost] X-BeenThere: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: vadim_nuclight@mail.ru List-Id: GEOM-specific discussions and implementations List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2008 12:36:03 -0000 Hi Andriy Gapon! On Mon, 15 Dec 2008 12:55:31 +0200; Andriy Gapon wrote about 'Re: partition covering the whole slice [repost]': >> Yes, of course. You should not intermix using glabel(8) utilizing /dev/ufs >> (via tunefs) and bsdlabel partition starting from offset 0. This is because >> glabel can't distinguish is that slice or partition - with offset 0 superblock >> will be at the same position. Also, that's why bsdlabel(8) creates partition 'a' with offset 16 by default. >> You can try to erase bsdlabel completely (if this is not your boot partition) >> from the slice and use filesystem directly from the slice. This will not affect >> mount as you're already using labels. >> >> The other way will require shrinking-then-moving partition on the disk and >> editing disklabel, better done with newfs(8). > thanks a lot for the explanation and the advice. > I used gpart destroy to remove bsdlabel and now I have filesystems > covering the whole slices. This works well. Also, check that your fsck doesn't complain about that setup (can't automatically determine how to check it). -- WBR, Vadim Goncharov. ICQ#166852181 mailto:vadim_nuclight@mail.ru [Moderator of RU.ANTI-ECOLOGY][FreeBSD][http://antigreen.org][LJ:/nuclight]