Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2008 12:55:31 +0200 From: Andriy Gapon <avg@icyb.net.ua> To: vadim_nuclight@mail.ru Cc: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Subject: Re: partition covering the whole slice [repost] Message-ID: <494637A3.9080807@icyb.net.ua> In-Reply-To: <slrngjq4qk.1sqb.vadim_nuclight@server.filona.x88.info> References: <4939287C.3020208@icyb.net.ua> <slrngjq4qk.1sqb.vadim_nuclight@server.filona.x88.info>
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on 08/12/2008 14:30 Vadim Goncharov said the following: > Yes, of course. You should not intermix using glabel(8) utilizing /dev/ufs > (via tunefs) and bsdlabel partition starting from offset 0. This is because > glabel can't distinguish is that slice or partition - with offset 0 superblock > will be at the same position. > > You can try to erase bsdlabel completely (if this is not your boot partition) > from the slice and use filesystem directly from the slice. This will not affect > mount as you're already using labels. > > The other way will require shrinking-then-moving partition on the disk and > editing disklabel, better done with newfs(8). Vadim, thanks a lot for the explanation and the advice. I used gpart destroy to remove bsdlabel and now I have filesystems covering the whole slices. This works well. -- Andriy Gapon
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