From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Sep 21 18:02:57 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id SAA12651 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 21 Sep 1996 18:02:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from po1.glue.umd.edu (po1.glue.umd.edu [129.2.128.44]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id SAA12625 for ; Sat, 21 Sep 1996 18:02:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from modem.eng.umd.edu (modem.eng.umd.edu [129.2.98.187]) by po1.glue.umd.edu (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAA28723; Sat, 21 Sep 1996 21:02:51 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (chuckr@localhost) by modem.eng.umd.edu (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id VAA08017; Sat, 21 Sep 1996 21:02:51 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: modem.eng.umd.edu: chuckr owned process doing -bs Date: Sat, 21 Sep 1996 21:02:50 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey X-Sender: chuckr@modem.eng.umd.edu To: "Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com" cc: FreeBSD-Hackers Subject: Re: Using disklabel In-Reply-To: <199609220018.RAA01976@MindBender.serv.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 21 Sep 1996, Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com wrote: > > >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". I read the man page 5 times, and didn't see that. Next time you come to the DC area, remember you've a free steak dinner to collect! Thanks! ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- 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! ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------