Date: Thu, 5 Sep 1996 21:43:14 +0200 (MET DST) From: Philippe Regnauld <regnauld@tetard.glou.eu.org> To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org (hackers) Subject: Re: reported disk corruption Message-ID: <199609051943.VAA01481@tetard.glou.eu.org> In-Reply-To: <199609042121.HAA18058@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from Bruce Evans at "Sep 5, 96 07:21:34 am"
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Bruce Evans écrit / writes: > There should been no label on a really pristine (untouched by *BSD) disk :-). > The (1,1,1) geometry is probably caused by a bug in sysinstall (putting > a bogus partition table in the MBR in some cases). The (1,1,1) geometry > is alarming but harmless AFAIK, at least if it is kept out of labels. It > will still appear in the dummy label for the whole disk and copying that > label can easily result in a label like the one below. Don't know if this is a bug or an intended feature, but I had some trouble with sysinstall in 2.1.5: Used DOS fdisk to split a 1GB into two slices (350MB for MS-DOG, the rest for FBSD). After a while, I decided I needed a spare partition, and decided to squash the first 350 :-) (Remember, the DOS slice was the FIRST on the disk). I run sysintall, call up the slice editor and delete the DOS (165 id) slice. In place I create an equal sized BSD slice. I then (W)rite it out, and switch to the partition ed. There I mount the existing partitions, and add the new part., which I decide to mount as spare. I write out the changes, and *WHAM*, sysinstall dumps core. I do an ls -l, and get a vm_fault: pager input (prob. hw), error PID xxx failure. df, ls, du, anything: same error. Did the partition table get messed up in a way that they were all shifted by the new UFS partition ? -- Phil -- -[ Philippe Regnauld / regnauld@eu.org / +55.4N +11.3E @ Sol3 / +45 31241690 ]- -[ "To kårve or nøt to kårve, that is the qvestion..." -- My sister ]-
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