Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 18:10:36 -0400 From: Paul Mather <paul@gromit.dlib.vt.edu> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> Cc: Chris Elsworth <chris@shagged.org> Subject: Re: WARNING: Expected rawoffset 0, found 63 ? Message-ID: <1096063835.9306.130.camel@zappa.Chelsea-Ct.Org> In-Reply-To: <54732.1096062623@critter.freebsd.dk> References: <54732.1096062623@critter.freebsd.dk>
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On Fri, 2004-09-24 at 17:50, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> In message <1096056348.9306.87.camel@zappa.Chelsea-Ct.Org>, Paul Mather writes:
> >I believe the above is bsdlabel's idea of an "auto" label. I don't know
> >why the 16 sector offset for the "a" partition, because you don't get
> >that when you label a slice via sysinstall and choose the "auto
> >defaults." (Maybe there's a case for making bsdlabel's "auto" label
> >behave the same as sysinstall.)
>
> The 16 offset is to protect the disklabel and boot code. You have no
> idea how much I hate the person who made the hack to leave the metadata
> inside the trafic partitions.
So I guess the case to be made is really to have sysinstall behave the
same as bsdlabel, not vice versa.
I'm presuming sysinstall-style partition-a-starts-at-offset-0 labels are
still safe, though, right?
Cheers,
Paul.
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