bsdlabel wierd.

[Ian Freislich]

Hi

I was experimenting with growfs yesterday and I noticed this wierd
thing crop up in my label.  Notice the 'a' partition which I can
no longer get rid of and appears automatically.  using bsdlabel -e
I have to delete this partition if I want to change any of the other
partitions (it complains about overlapping partitions otherwise).

[brane-dead] / # bsdlabel /dev/ad0s1
# /dev/ad0s1:
8 partitions:
#        size   offset    fstype   [fsize bsize bps/cpg]
  a: 20044064       16    unused        0     0       
  c: 20044080        0    unused     1024  8192         # "raw" part, don't edit
  e: 20044080        0    4.2BSD     1024  8192 46248 

What am I missing?  BTW, growfs barfed too with a 'rdfs: read error'.

[brane-dead] /var/log # fdisk /dev/ad0
******* Working on device /dev/ad0 *******
parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are:
cylinders=19885 heads=16 sectors/track=63 (1008 blks/cyl)

Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions not in cyl 1
parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are:
cylinders=19885 heads=16 sectors/track=63 (1008 blks/cyl)

Media sector size is 512
Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1
Information from DOS bootblock is:
The data for partition 1 is:
sysid 165 (0xa5),(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD)
    start 0, size 20044080 (9787 Meg), flag 80 (active)
        beg: cyl 0/ head 0/ sector 1;
        end: cyl 428/ head 15/ sector 63
The data for partition 2 is:
<UNUSED>
The data for partition 3 is:
<UNUSED>
The data for partition 4 is:
<UNUSED>

Ian