Disk labelling: WARNING: Expected rawoffset 37752750, found 0

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <20030505175127.GA32901 at gromit.dlib.vt.edu>, Paul Mather writes:

>I have two main questions:
>
>1) What are the semantics of ad0s2c, and have they changed recently?
>   (When disklabel says "whole unit" in the disklabel message above,
>   does it really mean "whole slice" [as opposed to "whole disk?"]?)

The semantics are somewhat in a flux, but the 'c' (or RAW_PART) is
still magic at this point.

>2) Does the "WARNING: Expected rawoffset 37752750, found 0" spell
>   trouble ahead, and if so, what should I do to fix it?

It should be harmless.

I would be very interested if you could try to compile the "bsdlabel"
program in src/sbin/bsdlabel and tell me what that says about your
disk.

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