From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 18 09:47:45 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 692C516A4CE for ; Fri, 18 Feb 2005 09:47:45 +0000 (GMT) Received: from resmo.com (resmo.com [204.202.11.13]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 19A7243D5C for ; Fri, 18 Feb 2005 09:47:45 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from gstewart@bonivet.net) X-Resmo-Authenticated-User: [godwin] X-Resmo-Msg-Submitted-By: mail.bonivet.net [81.56.185.133] Received: from dragonfly.bonivet.net (mail.bonivet.net [81.56.185.133]) (authenticated bits=0) by resmo.com (8.13.1/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j1I9lgoj089563 for ; Fri, 18 Feb 2005 09:47:44 GMT Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2005 10:47:36 +0100 From: Godwin Stewart To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Message-Id: <20050218104736.4e232c5c.gstewart@bonivet.net> In-Reply-To: <20050216233125.010075fb.gstewart@bonivet.net> References: <42134454.7030306@mcdonald.no> <790a9fff05021607456ec0406d@mail.gmail.com> <20050216175920.4f60007c.gstewart@bonivet.net> <4213B3FD.6060400@mcdonald.no> <20050216233125.010075fb.gstewart@bonivet.net> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 1.9.2 (GTK+ 2.4.9; i386-unknown-freebsd5.3) X-Face: #T;eJks=B[`71qrwp`l6BW8xI&hP8S*4Kd%e?8o"rL02ZYf"rWa41l83a)L,*; S).Ukq$U% II{-z#5%i&X8"%{$)ZWmE7WBDF)?wK1^7]u9T;@jqdZo?IT!d-L`!@&vW)F_1 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Strange disk problems make the system lock up X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2005 09:47:45 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 13:22:12 -0600, Scot Hetzel wrote with a forced Reply-to: directing mail away from the list: > The problem is that he only has the "c" partition, which is reserved to > specifying the entire disk. s/disk/slice/ Altho' in this case it's the same thing since the slice occupies the whole disk. > He needs to use disklabel to create a partion using one of a,b,d-h. Technically speaking, what is the difference between using the 'c' partition and creating another partition that uses the same space - other than pure convention? Quoting from man bsdlabel: "By convention, partition `c' represents the entire slice and should be of type unused, though bsdlabel does not enforce this convention." ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ - -- G. Stewart - gstewart@bonivet.net Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job will cost. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFCFbm4K5oiGLo9AcYRAnmUAKCiFDoE0ooJVm2V7/uy+4SWJ+hCeACgskf9 ODjMsKxuDHqPnz9DIM0C3d0= =357L -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----