Date: Fri, 26 Dec 2008 00:53:17 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org> To: Marcel Moolenaar <xcllnt@mac.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de> Subject: Re: "geometry does not match label" Message-ID: <20081226085317.GA26808@dragon.NUXI.org> In-Reply-To: <95872328-4FBF-4DAD-98DE-024FF53A4505@mac.com> References: <gij9kg$23u$1@lorvorc.mips.inka.de> <95872328-4FBF-4DAD-98DE-024FF53A4505@mac.com>
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On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 06:43:49PM -0800, Marcel Moolenaar wrote: > On Dec 20, 2008, at 9:22 AM, Christian Weisgerber wrote: >> partition c: partition extends past end of unit >> bsdlabel: partition c doesn't start at 0! >> bsdlabel: An incorrect partition c may cause problems for standard system >> utilities >> partition h: partition extends past end of unit >> >> I don't know where this is coming from--the system was installed >> about a year ago with standard sysinstall--and I don't see what's >> supposed to be wrong. > > Apparently sysinstall creates faulty disklabels. Can you elaborate? I'm getting it on several machines also. Right now, I'm trying to upgrade to a larger disk in one machine tonight... Xmas present to myself... What is the "approved" way to slice a disk into 4 regular slices and than partition the slices? The only sane way to do this is (was?) sysintall/SADE. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org)
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