Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2005 10:47:36 +0100 From: Godwin Stewart <gstewart@bonivet.net> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Strange disk problems make the system lock up Message-ID: <20050218104736.4e232c5c.gstewart@bonivet.net> In-Reply-To: <20050216233125.010075fb.gstewart@bonivet.net> References: <42134454.7030306@mcdonald.no> <790a9fff05021607456ec0406d@mail.gmail.com> <20050216175920.4f60007c.gstewart@bonivet.net> <4213B3FD.6060400@mcdonald.no> <20050216233125.010075fb.gstewart@bonivet.net>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 13:22:12 -0600, Scot Hetzel <swhetzel@gmail.com> wrote with a forced Reply-to: directing mail away from the list: > The problem is that he only has the "c" partition, which is reserved to > specifying the entire disk. s/disk/slice/ Altho' in this case it's the same thing since the slice occupies the whole disk. > He needs to use disklabel to create a partion using one of a,b,d-h. Technically speaking, what is the difference between using the 'c' partition and creating another partition that uses the same space - other than pure convention? Quoting from man bsdlabel: "By convention, partition `c' represents the entire slice and should be of type unused, though bsdlabel does not enforce this convention." ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ - -- G. Stewart - gstewart@bonivet.net Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job will cost. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFCFbm4K5oiGLo9AcYRAnmUAKCiFDoE0ooJVm2V7/uy+4SWJ+hCeACgskf9 ODjMsKxuDHqPnz9DIM0C3d0= =357L -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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