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Date:      Tue, 30 Dec 2008 09:11:27 -0800
From:      "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org>
To:        Marcel Moolenaar <xcllnt@mac.com>
Cc:        Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: "geometry does not match label"
Message-ID:  <20081230171127.GA18967@dragon.NUXI.org>
In-Reply-To: <193E7722-B42E-4118-86CB-4F389260B430@mac.com>
References:  <gij9kg$23u$1@lorvorc.mips.inka.de> <95872328-4FBF-4DAD-98DE-024FF53A4505@mac.com> <20081226085453.GB26808@dragon.NUXI.org> <20081226210839.GG1081@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org> <193E7722-B42E-4118-86CB-4F389260B430@mac.com>

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On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 10:31:47PM -0800, Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
> On Dec 26, 2008, at 1:08 PM, Peter Jeremy wrote:
>>> # disklabel /dev/ad8s4f
>>> # /dev/ad8s4f:
>>> 8 partitions:
>>> #        size   offset    fstype   [fsize bsize bps/cpg]
>>> c: 83441610 150994935    unused        0     0         # "raw" part, 
>>> don't edit
>>> f: 83441610 150994935    4.2BSD        0     0     0
>>> partition c: offset past end of unit
>>> partition c: partition extends past end of unit
>>> disklabel: partition c doesn't start at 0!
>>> disklabel: An incorrect partition c may cause problems for standard 
>>> system utilities
>>> partition f: offset past end of unit
>>> partition f: partition extends past end of unit
>> 
>> It looks like GEOM_PART_BSD reports partition information that is
>> incompatible with bsdlabel.
> 
> disklabel reads the label from the disk. It's wrong on the
> disk.

Given the number of existing disks that folks will use with
GEOM_PART_BSD, can you whip up a utility to read the existing disk label
and write out a "proper" one?  (most preferably is a label that releng7
and releng6 kernels + utils will tolerate too).

-- 
-- David  (obrien@FreeBSD.org)



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