From owner-freebsd-fs Sun Jun 9 14: 4:16 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from prometheus.vh.laserfence.net (prometheus.laserfence.net [196.44.73.116]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 401AF37B40E for ; Sun, 9 Jun 2002 14:04:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phoenix.vh.laserfence.net ([192.168.0.10]) by prometheus.vh.laserfence.net with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1) id 17H9qy-0002L5-00; Sun, 09 Jun 2002 23:04:00 +0200 Date: Sun, 9 Jun 2002 23:04:00 +0200 (SAST) From: Willie Viljoen X-X-Sender: will@phoenix.vh.laserfence.net To: Terry Lambert Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Strange filesystem problem revisited... (follow up) In-Reply-To: <3D03C1DB.371335B0@mindspring.com> Message-ID: <20020609230208.F18802-100000@phoenix.vh.laserfence.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Terry, it's fixed, thanks :) From what I understand, the diskslice editor in the install process creates partitions with rather odd specifications, this (the working) being another strange example: sysid 165,(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD) start 37817010, size 33543720 (16378 Meg), flag 80 (active) beg: cyl 1023/ head 255/ sector 63; end: cyl 1023/ head 254/ sector 63 Surely it can't really start and end on the same cylinder... however, certain partition management programs seem to pick that up, unfortunately, DOS FDISK did not, and killed my partition. My own fault for not realising this though. Thanks a bunch. Will On Sun, 9 Jun 2002, Terry Lambert wrote: > Willie Viljoen wrote: > > It turns out Terry was right, the FAT32 partition had (unnoticed) > > encroached upon the FreeBSD slice in such a way that the beginning of the > > FAT32 primary partition, and the end of the FreeBSD slice were trying to > > share the same piece of disk surface. > > I assume you have it fixed now? > > This is always a really anoying bug. It shouldn't be possible for > it to happen, but it happens often enough that it was the first > thing I thought of when you posted. 8-(. > > -- Terry > > > -- Willie Viljoen Private IT Consultant 214 Paul Kruger Avenue Universitas Bloemfontein 9321 South Africa +27 51 522 15 60, a/h +27 51 522 44 36 +27 82 404 03 27 will@laserfence.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message