bsdlabel partiton c error message on new install
Jeremy Chadwick
koitsu at FreeBSD.org
Fri Oct 17 05:22:09 PDT 2008
On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 02:13:45PM +0200, andys wrote:
> Hi,
>
> on a newly installed FreeBSD 7.0 system on a dell 1950 server I see the
> following error from bsdlabel. Is there any known issues with this or is
> the only reasonable explanation that I have managed to mess it up without
> even knowing? :P And should I manually change the partition c to fix the
> prob? Is this safe to do?
>
> bsdlabel -A /dev/da0s1
> # /dev/da0s1:
> type: SCSI
> disk: da0s1
> label:
> flags:
> bytes/sector: 512
> sectors/track: 63
> tracks/cylinder: 255
> sectors/cylinder: 16065
> cylinders: 17750
> sectors/unit: 285155328
> rpm: 3600
> interleave: 1
> trackskew: 0
> cylinderskew: 0
> headswitch: 0 # milliseconds
> track-to-track seek: 0 # milliseconds
> drivedata: 0
>
> 8 partitions:
> # size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg]
> a: 20971520 0 4.2BSD 2048 16384 28552
> b: 20971520 75497472 swap
> c: 285153687 0 unused 0 0 # "raw" part,
> don't edit
> d: 20971520 20971520 4.2BSD 2048 16384 28552
> e: 20971520 41943040 4.2BSD 2048 16384 28552
> f: 12582912 62914560 4.2BSD 2048 16384 28552
> bsdlabel: partition c doesn't cover the whole unit!
> bsdlabel: An incorrect partition c may cause problems for standard system
> utilities
It's complaining that 285153687 (see "c" partition) does not equal
285155328 (see "sectors/unit" up top).
> thanks for any advice, Im not really confident with the FreeBSD disk
> management as I havent used it much,
I'm left wondering why you're messing around with bsdlabel on a FreeBSD
install in the first place. :-)
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