Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2001 23:17:58 +0100 (CET) From: Cyrille Lefevre <clefevre@citeweb.net> To: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> Cc: John De Boskey <jwd@FreeBSD.ORG>, Stable List <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: "disklabel -rw ar0 auto" breaks HPT raid0+1 Message-ID: <200111112217.fABMHw017887@gits.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <200111112117.fABLHaB47695@apollo.backplane.com>
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Matthew Dillon wrote: > There is a section near the end of the 'disklabel' manual page that > describes how to partition a disk with a real slice entry instead of > dangerously dedicated mode. are you talking about the "BUG" section ? it only say that disklabel doesn't clobber the partition table. the problem is that it overwrite the following 15 sectors w/ boot2 while the first 10 sectors are used by the RAID hardware... do you see the problem. using fdisk, disklabel writes it's boot informations starting at sector 64 since the first half cylinder is reserved by fdisk. so, it doesn't clobber anything. is this explanation more clear ? Cyrille. -- Cyrille Lefevre mailto:clefevre@citeweb.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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