partition covering the whole slice [repost]

[Vadim Goncharov]

Hi Andriy Gapon! 

On Mon, 15 Dec 2008 12:55:31 +0200; Andriy Gapon wrote about 'Re: partition covering the whole slice [repost]':

>> 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.

Also, that's why bsdlabel(8) creates partition 'a' with offset 16 by default.
 
>> 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).
> 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.

Also, check that your fsck doesn't complain about that setup (can't
automatically determine how to check it).

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