Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 10:42:06 +0100 From: "andys" <a.smith@ukgrid.net> To: Ulf Lilleengen <lulf@stud.ntnu.no> Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bsdlabel partiton c error message on new install Message-ID: <E1KsDkd-000LLy-0C@alpha.ukgrid.net> In-Reply-To: <20081021083415.GA1571@carrot.studby.ntnu.no> References: <E1Kqr3m-000Pp9-I0@alpha.ukgrid.net> <20081021083415.GA1571@carrot.studby.ntnu.no>
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Hi Ulf, thanks a lot for your answer, previously I'd asked this question on the freebsd-questions list and someone suggested asking it here as they didnt know the answer, however I did get pretty much 2 responces telling me to reinstall the OS!! :S For example I had this answer: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2008-October/184617.htm l So I assume you would disagree with this and the other person who advised me this was a serious error? And if this actually isnt a problem, does bsdlabel need to be updated (and the man page) to reflect the fact this can be seen on a healthy system? thanks a lot! Andy. > > This is completely ok. The reasons that you might get warnings like this is > that fdisk tries to put the sector number on a cylinder boundary. If that > means that the partition is larger than the actual disklabel size, that is > ok. What would have been a problem is if the disklabel extends past the > partition size! (I think the installer makes sure this does not happen). > > You do waste a few sectors because of this, but unless you are really > interested in getting them back, I would not start bothering with it. One way > to "fix" it is to do a bsdlabel -e and change > c: 285153687 0 unused 0 0 > to > c: 285155328 0 unused 0 0 > > But again, it is not many sectors that is currently wasted. > > -- > Ulf Lilleengen
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