Date: Tue, 13 Jan 1998 10:05:24 -0600 From: Glenn Johnson <gljohns@bellsouth.net> To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: partition errors Message-ID: <199801131605.KAA00412@gforce.bellsouth.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 12 Jan 1998 22:39:40 PST." <Pine.BSF.3.96.980112223824.22079b-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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Doug, Thanks for the reply. > On Sat, 10 Jan 1998, Glenn Johnson wrote: > > > I just installed an old Quantum IDE drive as a second drive (model LPS540A). I > > wanted to have a swap partition and two ufs filesystems using the entire disk > > in dedicated mode. I kept getting errors when newfs was run on the second > > filesystem, wd2s1f. I tried it in non-dedicated mode but was getting the same > > errors about bad parameters. What is wrong here? This is the -current 122597 > > SNAP by the way. > > I assume you're subscribed to current@freebsd.org.... > Yes, I am subscribed to -current. > > > > Finally, I made a small DOS partition and then used the rest for FreeBSD. This > > seemed to work, and in fact I am using the disk with the swap and two > > filesystems now. However, when I boot up, I get the following messages: > > > > wd2s1: raw partition size != slice size > > wd2s1: start 63, end 32255, size 32193 > > wd2s1c: start 63, end 1056383, size 1056321 > > wd2s1: truncating raw partition > > wd2s1: rejecting partition in BSD label: it isn't entirely within the slice > > wd2s1: start 63, end 32255, size 32193 > > wd2s1b: start 63, end 131134, size 131072 > > wd2s1: rejecting partition in BSD label: it isn't entirely within the slice > > wd2s1e: start 131135, end 593982, size 462848 > > wd2s1: rejecting partition in BSD label: it isn't entirely within the slice > > wd2s1f: start 593983, end 1056383, size 462401 > > > > What does this mean and should I be concerned? > > This means your disklabel is incorrect. You need to correct your > disklabel and re-newfs. See http://www.freebsd.org/tutorials/diskformat/ > for info. > This is what I suspected. The diskformat tutorial is what I used as my guide. I used the /stand/sysinstall program as per the instructions in the tutorial. I tried with the FBSD calculated disklabel, as well as specifying the geometry that the BIOS reported. No luck in either case. Should I try again using the command line instructions given in the tutorial? > Hope you have a backup. Yes. Also, I did not put anything critical on this disk. I wanted to get this resolved first. > > Doug White | University of Oregon > Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant > http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major > > > Thank you for your time and help. -- Glenn Johnson gljohns@bellsouth.net
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