partition covering the whole slice [repost]

[Andriy Gapon]

on 08/12/2008 14:30 Vadim Goncharov said the following:
> Yes, of course. You should not intermix using glabel(8) utilizing /dev/ufs
> (via tunefs) and bsdlabel partition starting from offset 0. This is because
> glabel can't distinguish is that slice or partition - with offset 0 superblock
> will be at the same position.
> 
> You can try to erase bsdlabel completely (if this is not your boot partition)
> from the slice and use filesystem directly from the slice. This will not affect
> mount as you're already using labels.
> 
> The other way will require shrinking-then-moving partition on the disk and
> editing disklabel, better done with newfs(8).

Vadim,

thanks a lot for the explanation and the advice.
I used gpart destroy to remove bsdlabel and now I have filesystems
covering the whole slices. This works well.


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Andriy Gapon