Date: Sat, 21 Sep 1996 19:06:06 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@glue.umd.edu> To: FreeBSD-Hackers <FreeBSD-Hackers@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Using disklabel Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.3.95.960921185835.7980A-100000@modem.eng.umd.edu>
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Help! I need to set up 2 partitions (only 2) on a st42100N seagate scsi disk, size 1812MB. I tried to set up partitions e: and f:, but disklabel kept on telling me (after a frustrating editing session when it kept on getting the default scsi sizes wrong) that my partition names were invalid, and that I had an unused partition d. I only want 2 partitions, this isn't a boot disk. I want them equal in size. Fdisk would not help me by providing good scsi defaults, so I chose 64 heads and 32 sectors/track as scsi default, and for the 1812 MB disk that gave me 1812 cylinders. Would be nice if disklabel could have read that, but how do I get disklabel to take my sector defs? I haven't yet newfs'ed it yet. Here are my entries to disklabel, that failed: a: 0 0 unused 0 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 - 0*) d: 0 0 unused 0 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 - 0*) c: 3711990 0 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 1 -1811*) e: 1855995 0 4.2BSD 0 0 0 # (Cyl. 1 -906*) f: 1855995 1855995 4.2BSD 0 0 0 # (Cyl. 907 -1811*) /tmp/EdDk.a003023: 26 lines, 753 characters. line 25: bad partition name line 26: bad partition name If I weren't up against a time deadline, I'd experiment more, but disklabel is really unhelpful. This is disk sd2 on an already running system, I wish I could coax the sysinstall into working on sd2. ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@eng.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 9120 Edmonston Ct #302 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and n3lxx, both FreeBSD (301) 220-2114 | version 2.2 current -- and great FUN! ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------
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