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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