Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 15:55:51 -0500 From: Jason Dusek <jdusek@cs.uiowa.edu> To: "Questions@BSD" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Broken Disk Message-ID: <40B26157.1040100@cs.uiowa.edu> In-Reply-To: <200405241925.i4OJP4l19680@clunix.cl.msu.edu> References: <200405241925.i4OJP4l19680@clunix.cl.msu.edu>
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> So, anyway, user questions should not be surprising.
> (But please ask reasonably specific questions or it is hard to
> give a relevant answer)
>
> ////jerry
Fair Enough,
My question is 'how do I edit a disklabel?' I assume that I am supposed
to add an 'e' partition, but it seems that the c partition has eaten my
disk. The partition file looks like this:
<...stuff in the front omitted...>
8 partitions:
# size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg]
c: 78164037 0 4.2BSD 2048 16384 89 # (Cyl. 0 -
12406*)
Does this mean that my disk is 'dangerously dedicated'? Isn't the fstype
supposed to be 'ufs'? How do I toggle soft updates? I want to use this
disk as backup media, so is one undifferentiated partition a good idea?
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Jerry McAllister wrote:
>>Jason Dusek wrote:
>>
>>>Hi,
>>>
>>>Through a combination of this list's suggestions, I managed to get fdisk
>>>to successfully operate on my disk. Thanks. However, the step about
>>>'editing my label' as given in the handbook:
>>>
>>># disklabel -e da1s1 # Edit the disklabel just created.
>>>
>>>is not something I really understand. Where is some nice documentation
>>>on this?
>>
>>"man disklabel" is pretty comprehensive.
>
>
> Yes. But, you have to read it together with man fdisk to make any
> sense of it and even then the writing is rather convoluted and confusing.
> They could both use a complete systematic rewrite. I don't think I
> know enough of the extra stuff (the stuff I don't usually use) to do
> it or I would try it.
>
> So, anyway, user questions should not be surprising.
> (But please ask reasonably specific questions or it is hard to
> give a relevant answer)
>
> ////jerry
>
>
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>>Potential Technologies
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