Disklabel bug?

Poul-Henning Kamp phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Wed Apr 30 08:36:06 PDT 2003


In message <20030430104448.GD400 at nitro.dk>, "Simon L. Nielsen" writes:

>I have a disk with two slices since I need more partions than on slice
>can hold.  I have one 20GB and one ~200GB but when I edit the disklabels
>for the two slices it looks like disklabel(8) get the total size of the
>slize wrong (sectors/unit).  It uses the size of the entire disk instead
>of the slice causing disklabel to complain about the c partion being
>wrong size.

Hmm, I just tried this on my test box, and it came out right, so I 
wonder if you can remember the exact steps which brought you in
this situation ?

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