"geometry does not match label"

[Marcel Moolenaar]

On Dec 26, 2008, at 12:53 AM, David O'Brien wrote:

> On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 06:43:49PM -0800, Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
>> On Dec 20, 2008, at 9:22 AM, Christian Weisgerber wrote:
>>> 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 h: partition extends past end of unit
>>>
>>> I don't know where this is coming from--the system was installed
>>> about a year ago with standard sysinstall--and I don't see what's
>>> supposed to be wrong.
>>
>> Apparently sysinstall creates faulty disklabels.
>
> Can you elaborate?  I'm getting it on several machines also.
> Right now, I'm trying to upgrade to a larger disk in one machine
> tonight... Xmas present to myself...

sysinstall/libdisk uses the media size and not the slice size to
calculate the various fields in the disklabel. That's why the 'c'
partition extends past the end of the unit.

-- 
Marcel Moolenaar
xcllnt at mac.com