Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2003 15:33:28 -0700 From: Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC <chad@shire.net> To: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: partition is "e" should be "a" -- how to fix? Message-ID: <523325EB-4E91-11D7-949E-003065A70D30@shire.net> In-Reply-To: <15973.10165.354252.191640@guru.mired.org>
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On Tuesday, Mar 4, 2003, at 15:24 US/Mountain, Mike Meyer wrote: > In <D7468578-4E8E-11D7-949E-003065A70D30@shire.net>, Chad Leigh -- > Shire.Net LLC <chad@shire.net> typed: >> On Tuesday, Mar 4, 2003, at 14:55 US/Mountain, Mike Meyer wrote: >> Okay, should I be able to have an "a" and an "e" that overlap? >> Disklabel doesn't seem to want to let me do this. > > Yes, you should, but apparently someone decided not to allow > that. Personally, that strikes me as a being bogus, but fixing it > requires hacking disklabel. yeah, not very interesting at this particular moment :-) Back in my ultrix days I remember we could overlap things and that was something we had to watch for by hand... > > Try booting the fixit cdrom, and doing the disklabel to chagne e to a > without mounting e. > ok, I will see if I can scare up a CDrom drive :-) thanks Chad To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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