Date: Sun, 27 Aug 1995 07:41:33 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: my Linux swap partition again Message-ID: <199508270541.HAA21547@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199508262128.HAA17541@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Aug 27, 95 07:28:28 am
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As Bruce Evans wrote: > > fdisk doesn't synchronize the changes with the kernel, so there are > problems if wd0s3 doesn't already exist or if you changed its size. This seems to be the problem. > wd0s3 must have existed for disklabel to get as far as the DIOCSDINFO > attempt, so perhaps you gave the wrong size to fdisk, or <mysliceinfo> > is inconsistent. It's consistent. > The fdisk step shouldn't be necessary. Just write a label. It has been a slice type ``Linux swap'' previously. You mean, i don't have to convert it to 0xa5 in order to disklabel it? (That's all the mysterious fdisk crap did actually do.) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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