Disklabe oddity
Greg 'groggy' Lehey
grog at FreeBSD.org
Tue Sep 23 20:33:27 PDT 2003
On Tuesday, 23 September 2003 at 10:29:17 +0200, Guy Van Sanden wrote:
> On Sun, 2003-09-21 at 02:46, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
>>>> You can clear the error by running disklabel -e /dev/ad0s1a in single
>>>> user mode, and changing the length and offset of partition c (offset
>>>> 0, add 63 to the size).
>>>
>>> I wanted to try this on the mirror disk first, it also shows the offset
>>> at 63 using disklabel -r
>>> Yet doing disklabel -e on it shows the offset at 0
>>> 8 partitions:
>>> # size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg]
>>> a: 327680 0 4.2BSD 2048 16384 20488 # (Cyl. 0 - 325*)
>>> b: 1007984 327680 swap # (Cyl. 325*- 1325*)
>>> c: 80418177 0 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 - 79779*)
>>> d: 1007616 1335664 4.2BSD 2048 16384 62984 # (Cyl. 1325*- 2324*)
>>> e: 1024000 2343280 4.2BSD 2048 16384 64008 # (Cyl. 2324*- 3340*)
>>> f: 18120704 3367280 4.2BSD 2048 16384 28552 # (Cyl. 3340*- 21317*)
>>> g: 20971520 21487984 4.2BSD 2048 16384 28552 # (Cyl. 21317*- 42122*)
>>> h: 37958673 42459504 4.2BSD 2048 16384 28552 # (Cyl. 42122*- 79779*)
>>
>> It looks as if you have two different partition tables. This one
>> doesn't match the other. Are you still getting the message?
>
> Strangely engough, yes Someone suggested that this might be a
> problem in -current, so I'll check those lists later today.
What does fdisk say about the drive? Do you have more than one slice
(BIOS "partitions")?
Greg
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