Date: Mon, 12 Jan 1998 22:39:40 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Glenn Johnson <gljohns@bellsouth.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: partition errors Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980112223824.22079b-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <199801100728.BAA00357@gforce.bellsouth.net>
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On Sat, 10 Jan 1998, Glenn Johnson wrote: > I just installed an old Quantum IDE drive as a second drive (model LPS540A). I > wanted to have a swap partition and two ufs filesystems using the entire disk > in dedicated mode. I kept getting errors when newfs was run on the second > filesystem, wd2s1f. I tried it in non-dedicated mode but was getting the same > errors about bad parameters. What is wrong here? This is the -current 122597 > SNAP by the way. I assume you're subscribed to current@freebsd.org.... > > Finally, I made a small DOS partition and then used the rest for FreeBSD. This > seemed to work, and in fact I am using the disk with the swap and two > filesystems now. However, when I boot up, I get the following messages: > > wd2s1: raw partition size != slice size > wd2s1: start 63, end 32255, size 32193 > wd2s1c: start 63, end 1056383, size 1056321 > wd2s1: truncating raw partition > wd2s1: rejecting partition in BSD label: it isn't entirely within the slice > wd2s1: start 63, end 32255, size 32193 > wd2s1b: start 63, end 131134, size 131072 > wd2s1: rejecting partition in BSD label: it isn't entirely within the slice > wd2s1e: start 131135, end 593982, size 462848 > wd2s1: rejecting partition in BSD label: it isn't entirely within the slice > wd2s1f: start 593983, end 1056383, size 462401 > > What does this mean and should I be concerned? This means your disklabel is incorrect. You need to correct your disklabel and re-newfs. See http://www.freebsd.org/tutorials/diskformat/ for info. Hope you have a backup. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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