From owner-freebsd-geom@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 16 11:41:12 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 F1244106564A for ; Tue, 16 Dec 2008 11:41:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from avg@icyb.net.ua) Received: from citadel.icyb.net.ua (citadel.icyb.net.ua [212.40.38.140]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2FCB58FC1C for ; Tue, 16 Dec 2008 11:41:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from avg@icyb.net.ua) Received: from odyssey.starpoint.kiev.ua (alpha-e.starpoint.kiev.ua [212.40.38.101]) by citadel.icyb.net.ua (8.8.8p3/ICyb-2.3exp) with ESMTP id NAA27780; Tue, 16 Dec 2008 13:41:07 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from avg@icyb.net.ua) Message-ID: <494793D2.5070107@icyb.net.ua> Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2008 13:41:06 +0200 From: Andriy Gapon User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.18 (X11/20081124) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: vadim_nuclight@mail.ru References: <4939287C.3020208@icyb.net.ua> <494637A3.9080807@icyb.net.ua> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=KOI8-U Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Subject: Re: partition covering the whole slice [repost] X-BeenThere: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: GEOM-specific discussions and implementations List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2008 11:41:13 -0000 on 15/12/2008 14:35 Vadim Goncharov said the following: > 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. But it seems that sysinstall doesn't, unfortunately. >>> 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). Yes, this happens indeed - whether I specify /dev/da0s1 or /dev/ufs/