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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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