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Date:      Sun, 15 Sep 2002 16:49:12 -0500
From:      "Jack L. Stone" <jackstone@sage-one.net>
To:        Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@bellavista.cz>, freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: disklabel: Warning, partition c doesn't cover the whole unit!
Message-ID:  <3.0.5.32.20020915164912.00fbeac8@mail.sage-one.net>
In-Reply-To: <20020915210758.GA318@freepuppy.bellavista.cz>

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At 11:07 PM 9.15.2002 +0200, Roman Neuhauser wrote:
>what does this mean?
>
>root@freepuppy ~ 1035:0 # disklabel -B -R -r ad1 /tmp/label
>Warning, partition c doesn't cover the whole unit!
>Warning, An incorrect partition c may cause problems for standard system
utiliti es
>disklabel: ioctl DIOCSDINFO: open partition would move or shrink
>
>root@freepuppy ~ 1036:1 # cat /tmp/label
># /dev/ad1:
>type: unknown
>disk: amnesiac
>label: fictitious
>flags:
>bytes/sector: 512
>sectors/track: 63
>tracks/cylinder: 255
>sectors/cylinder: 16065
>cylinders: 9729
>sectors/unit: 156301488
>rpm: 3600
>interleave: 1
>trackskew: 0
>cylinderskew: 0
>headswitch: 0           # milliseconds
>track-to-track seek: 0  # milliseconds
>drivedata: 0 
>
>8 partitions:
>#        size   offset    fstype   [fsize bsize bps/cpg]
>  a:      512m        *    4.2BSD
>  b:        1g        *    swap
>#  c:        *         *    unused
>  e:        *         *    4.2BSD
>
>root@freepuppy ~ 1037:0 # 
>

Looks like you ran a FDISK/disklabel script and didn't remove the "comment
out" on the "# c:" part of the labeling.....

Best regards,
Jack L. Stone,
Administrator

SageOne Net
http://www.sage-one.net
jackstone@sage-one.net

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