Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2004 22:10:44 -0400 (EDT) From: "Charles Ulrich" <charles@idealso.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: bsdlabel errors and weirdity Message-ID: <49617.207.179.91.96.1092622244.squirrel@freedombi.com>
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Greetings, On a whim, I decided to try out vinum this afternoon, but found myself stuck early on. One of the first steps is to locate the partition you want to use vinum and change it's type from "4.2BSD" to "vinum". This is where I get stuck, because when I run bsdlabel on the 10GB disk, I get: [apex:~]# bsdlabel ad0s1 # /dev/ad0s1: 8 partitions: # size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] a: 524288 63 4.2BSD 0 0 0 b: 1536000 524351 swap c: 20044017 63 unused 0 0 # "raw" part, don't edit e: 524288 2060351 4.2BSD 0 0 0 f: 524288 2584639 4.2BSD 0 0 0 g: 16935153 3108927 4.2BSD 0 0 0 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 g: partition extends past end of unit These errors prevent me changing the fstype to vinum because bsdlabel apparently takes exception to the sizes and offsets of the partitions and refuses to apply them. This system has been running various releases in the 5.x branch for the last 2 years with no problems whatsoever and is currently on 5.2.1-p3. What looks the funniest is that the 'a' and 'c' partitions don't start at 0. Every other example of bsdlabel output that I've seen today had those two starting at 0, and the error message specifically confirms that this isn't correct. I've tried relabeling the disk with the sysinstall utility on both 4.10 and 5.1 CDs, and on both IDE and SCSI drives to no avail. They all want to start the partitions at offset 63. I'm quite at a loss here, and I'm not sure exactly how to proceed. Any help at all would be appreciated. -- Charles Ulrich System Administrator Ideal Solution - http://www.idealso.com
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