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Date:      Tue, 25 Jul 2000 11:38:05 -0700 (PDT)
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@pike.osd.bsdi.com>
To:        steffen Glaser <sgl@slab.de>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Partition couldn't be labeled
Message-ID:  <200007251838.LAA00865@pike.osd.bsdi.com>
In-Reply-To: <397D67C4.ADF04EE8@slab.de> from steffen Glaser at "Jul 25, 2000 11:11:17 am"

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steffen Glaser wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> yesterday I tried to install FreeBSD on my computer.When I'd installed
> Linux I created an extra Partition (3,5GB) which stayed untouched
> therefore. FreeBSD displayed this partition in the editor together with
> the other partitions and suggested to install FreeBSD there. I agreed to
> that and to the freeBSD data type (165?) (in the 5th attemp I wrote the
> partition table immediately to the harddisk). The label editor displayed
> only one partition (I'm not sure, it is the same, because the displayed
> size was only 3.09 GB). The first time I was suspicious about this, but
> then I relied on FreeBSD and agreed. But I couldn't label this partition
> for / nor for /root, etc. I tried it several times, but it didn't work
> ever.

During the disklabel editor, sysinstall only displays the FreeBSD slices,
so what you saw is fine.
 
> Is it possible, that this problem occured, because it is the last slice
> of a 12 GB harddisk (and so behind the 8,4 GB position)? If so, what can
> I do?

This is exactly the problem.  It has been very recently fixed, and will be
present in 4.1-RELEASE, which will be built sometime tonight and hopefully
released on the FTP server by tomorrow.
 
> Greetings,
> 
> Steffen Glaser.

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