From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 16 2:19:53 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2046F37B400 for ; Mon, 16 Sep 2002 02:19:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.thundernet.cz (mail.thundernet.cz [62.77.87.114]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D371C43E77 for ; Mon, 16 Sep 2002 02:19:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from neuhauser@bellavista.cz) Received: (qmail 24786 invoked from network); 16 Sep 2002 09:19:49 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO freepuppy.bellavista.cz) (62.168.44.50) by mail.thundernet.cz with SMTP; 16 Sep 2002 09:19:49 -0000 Received: by freepuppy.bellavista.cz (Postfix, from userid 1001) id E3D472FDAB2; Mon, 16 Sep 2002 11:19:47 +0200 (CEST) Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2002 11:19:47 +0200 From: Roman Neuhauser To: "Jack L. Stone" Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: disklabel: Warning, partition c doesn't cover the whole unit! Message-ID: <20020916091947.GB370@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> Mail-Followup-To: "Jack L. Stone" , freebsd-questions References: <20020915210758.GA318@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> <3.0.5.32.20020915164912.00fbeac8@mail.sage-one.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.20020915164912.00fbeac8@mail.sage-one.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG # jackstone@sage-one.net / 2002-09-15 16:49:12 -0500: > At 11:07 PM 9.15.2002 +0200, Roman Neuhauser wrote: > >what does this mean? > > > >root@freepuppy ~ 1035:0 # disklabel -B -R -r ad1 /tmp/label > >Warning, partition c doesn't cover the whole unit! > >Warning, An incorrect partition c may cause problems for standard systemutilities > >disklabel: ioctl DIOCSDINFO: open partition would move or shrink > > > >root@freepuppy ~ 1036:1 # cat /tmp/label > ># /dev/ad1: > >type: unknown > >disk: amnesiac > >label: fictitious > >flags: > >bytes/sector: 512 > >sectors/track: 63 > >tracks/cylinder: 255 > >sectors/cylinder: 16065 > >cylinders: 9729 > >sectors/unit: 156301488 > >rpm: 3600 > >interleave: 1 > >trackskew: 0 > >cylinderskew: 0 > >headswitch: 0 # milliseconds > >track-to-track seek: 0 # milliseconds > >drivedata: 0 > > > >8 partitions: > ># size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] > > a: 512m * 4.2BSD > > b: 1g * swap > ># c: * * unused > > e: * * 4.2BSD > > > >root@freepuppy ~ 1037:0 # > > > > Looks like you ran a FDISK/disklabel script and didn't remove the "comment > out" on the "# c:" part of the labeling..... with the line not being commented out the error is "no space left on device" or something like that. i feel terrible for not providing the exact message, but i sent that message yesterday before getting the job done. note that i *still* want to know why the above failed. -- begin 666 nonexistent.vbs FreeBSD 4.6-STABLE 11:16AM up 20 mins, 4 users, load averages: 0.02, 0.02, 0.00 end To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message