Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 13:59:55 +0100 (CET) From: Harti Brandt <brandt@fokus.gmd.de> To: Bri <brian@ukip.com> Cc: freebsd-sparc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Disk Partition problem Message-ID: <20021217135740.P17977-100000@beagle.fokus.gmd.de> In-Reply-To: <NEBBKKNOEKKNLLNMEOHFAEJGLOAA.brian@ukip.com>
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On Tue, 17 Dec 2002, Bri wrote: B>if I try and use disklabel(8) to edit the slices information i get B> B>lighthouse# disklabel -e ad1 B>disklabel: ioctl DIOCGDINFO: Operation not supported by device B> B>I know this is a known problem but if i can't use disklabel to change the B>partition offset how am I meant to change it if I can't access the partition B>table as I have a damaged partition that I want to fix and I think I know B>where is starts on the disk and want to see if I'm right. You must boot from the CD and use sysinstall to change the label. There are currently two problems: - disklabel does not support sun labels - geom forbidds to write to the label if any of the partitions is active harti -- harti brandt, http://www.fokus.gmd.de/research/cc/cats/employees/hartmut.brandt/private brandt@fokus.gmd.de, brandt@fokus.fhg.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message
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