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Date:      Tue, 4 Mar 2003 15:33:28 -0700
From:      Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC <chad@shire.net>
To:        Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: partition is "e" should be "a" -- how to fix?
Message-ID:  <523325EB-4E91-11D7-949E-003065A70D30@shire.net>
In-Reply-To: <15973.10165.354252.191640@guru.mired.org>

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On Tuesday, Mar 4, 2003, at 15:24 US/Mountain, Mike Meyer wrote:

> In <D7468578-4E8E-11D7-949E-003065A70D30@shire.net>, Chad Leigh -- 
> Shire.Net LLC <chad@shire.net> typed:
>> On Tuesday, Mar 4, 2003, at 14:55 US/Mountain, Mike Meyer wrote:
>> Okay, should I be able to have an "a" and an "e" that overlap?
>> Disklabel doesn't seem to want to let me do this.
>
> Yes, you should, but apparently someone decided not to allow
> that. Personally, that strikes me as a being bogus, but fixing it
> requires hacking disklabel.

yeah, not very interesting at this particular moment :-)  Back in my 
ultrix days I remember we could overlap things and that was something 
we had to watch for by hand...

>
> Try booting the fixit cdrom, and doing the disklabel to chagne e to a
> without mounting e.
>
ok, I will see if I can scare up a CDrom drive :-)

thanks
Chad


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