Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2001 15:47:30 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> To: Cyrille Lefevre <clefevre@citeweb.net> 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: <200111112347.fABNlUS48412@apollo.backplane.com> References: <200111112217.fABMHw017887@gits.dyndns.org>
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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.
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: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 ?
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:Cyrille.
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:Cyrille Lefevre mailto:clefevre@citeweb.net
No, the EXAMPLES section.
-Matt
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