Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2003 15:15:43 -0700 From: Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC <chad@shire.net> To: Mike Meyer <mwm-dated-1047246901.8cfa85@mired.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: partition is "e" should be "a" -- how to fix? Message-ID: <D7468578-4E8E-11D7-949E-003065A70D30@shire.net> In-Reply-To: <15973.8372.371147.943043@guru.mired.org>
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On Tuesday, Mar 4, 2003, at 14:55 US/Mountain, Mike Meyer wrote: >> However, I am wanting some second opinions on this, >> and since I am not a disklabel guru, some guidance on how to use >> disklabel >> without screwing up my system would be appreciated. > > Basically, run "disklabel -e /dev/da0s1". That will create a temporary > file with the disklabel in it, and open an editor on that file. Delete > the line - if it exists - for a, copy the e line to where it was, and > then change the initial e to an a. Then save the file and exit the > editor. Fix your fstab to refer to da0s1a instead of da0s1e, and > reboot. > 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. before: 8 partitions: # size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] c: 803187 0 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 - 49*) e: 803187 0 4.2BSD 0 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 - 49*) after: 8 partitions: # size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] a: 803187 0 4.2BSD 0 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 - 49*) c: 803187 0 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 - 49*) e: 803187 0 4.2BSD 0 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 - 49*) I get a "partitions 'a' and 'e' overlap -- reedit?" or something very similar to this. If I say no, it quits out but then reading the disklabel back in shows no "a". if I try and replace "e" with "a" so that there is only one I get an error "disklabel: ioctl DIOCWDINFO: open partition would move or shrink" and it won't let me do that either, even in '-r' mode which should only affect the on disk label and not the memory label(??) . So I am still not getting this to work. (4.7 machine) thanks Chad To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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