"geometry does not match label"

David O'Brien obrien at freebsd.org
Fri Dec 26 08:54:54 UTC 2008


On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 06:43:49PM -0800, Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
> On Dec 20, 2008, at 9:22 AM, Christian Weisgerber wrote:
> Apparently sysinstall creates faulty disklabels.

Is this also fallout?

# fsck /dev/ad8s4f
fsck: Could not determine filesystem type

# disklabel /dev/ad8s4f
# /dev/ad8s4f:
8 partitions:
#        size   offset    fstype   [fsize bsize bps/cpg]
  c: 83441610 150994935    unused        0     0         # "raw" part, don't edit
  f: 83441610 150994935    4.2BSD        0     0     0
partition c: offset past end of unit
partition c: partition extends past end of unit
disklabel: partition c doesn't start at 0!
disklabel: An incorrect partition c may cause problems for standard system utilities
partition f: offset past end of unit
partition f: partition extends past end of unit



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