geom label detaching partway through boot

[Pawel Jakub Dawidek]

On Tue, Sep 11, 2007 at 12:52:03PM +0200, Ivan Voras wrote:
> Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote:
> >On Tue, Sep 11, 2007 at 10:22:12AM +0200, Ivan Voras wrote:
> >>Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote:
> >>
> >>>Ah, version is not important actually. The problem is that both
> >>>/dev/da0s1a and /dev/label/geom0s1a have the same size and the same
> >>>metadata. 
> >>Doesn't glabel store it's metadata on the provider (da0) if used with 
> >>the "label" verb? If so, why isn't the produced geom (geom0) shorter by 
> >>one sector? If not, where does it store the metadata? :)
> >
> >geom0 is one sector shorter than da0, but bsdlabel stuff, which defines
> >partitions is the same for both, so geom0s1a and da0s1a have the same
> >size.
> 
> You're right, if the bsdlabel was created on da0 instead of geom0. It's 
> not clear if the OP did that (question for the OP: did you?).

It doesn't really matter if 'a' partition doesn't cover entire slice.

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