Date: Sun, 7 May 1995 18:12:03 +1000 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: dawes@physics.usyd.edu.au, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Number of partitions reports/required by disklabel incorrect? Message-ID: <199505070812.SAA07864@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>I just noticed that the output of disklabel(8) on SNAP-950412 reports the >number of partitions to be one more than it displays. The main reason I >noticed it was that when editing the label, and setting the number to the >actual number: >3 partitions: ># size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] > a: 164538 198 4.2BSD 512 4096 16 # (Cyl. 1 - 831) > c: 164538 198 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 1 - 831) > d: 164736 0 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 - 831) >disklabel would say: >Warning, unused partition d: size 164736 offset 0 You already had 3 (a, b and c with b empty and not displayed). Then d was one too many. Bruce
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