Date: Sat, 21 Sep 1996 17:18:15 -0700 From: "Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com" <michaelv@MindBender.serv.net> To: Chuck Robey <chuckr@glue.umd.edu> Cc: FreeBSD-Hackers <FreeBSD-Hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Using disklabel Message-ID: <199609220018.RAA01976@MindBender.serv.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of Sat, 21 Sep 96 19:06:06 -0400. <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.
[...]
>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
You left off the most important part. What does it say for number of
partitions immediately before the "a:" line? For partitions through
"f", you'll need that to say at least "6 partitions".
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