GEOm label inconsistency.
David Gilbert
dgilbert at dclg.ca
Sun May 22 12:11:37 PDT 2005
I have two USB drives... so I decided that using geom_label.ko would
be handy to make scripts work for mounting and unmounting the drives
(as I could never ensure that they came up in the same order).
I was pleased to find that my various pieces of MSDOS flash seemed to
work just fine. /dev/msdosfs/<blah>
However, of my two USB drives (actual hard disks) ... both formatted
with a UFS filesystem covering the whole drive, one puts a label in
/dev/ufs and the other does not.
The one that works is a 30 gig laptop drive in a USB2 bus powered (two
plugs) carrier. It has an "fdisk -I" MBR and I formatted the da0s1c
partition. Now... geom_label recognises da0s1 as the labelled
partition ... but that really doesn't matter to me ... it works.
The one that doesn't work is a 120G drive in a USB2 enclosure from
iomega. Again, it has an "fdisk -I" MBR and a whole disk ufs
filesystem. geom_label does not recognise it for some reason.
Turning on the debug for geom_label, I find:
da1 at umass-sim1 bus 1 target 0 lun 0
da1: <IC35L120 AVV207-0 V24O> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-0 device
da1: 40.000MB/s transfers
da1: 117800MB (241254720 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 15017C)
GEOM_LABEL[1]: UFS1 file system detected on da1s1.
GEOM_LABEL[1]: MSDOS (FAT32) file system detected on da1s1.
GEOM_LABEL[1]: UFS1 file system detected on da1s1c.
GEOM_LABEL[1]: MSDOS (FAT32) file system detected on da1s1c.
GEOM_LABEL[1]: UFS1 file system detected on da1s1g.
GEOM_LABEL[1]: MSDOS (FAT32) file system detected on da1s1g.
Now... the drive _used_ to have a MSDOS filesytem on it... but it has
since been:
a) fdisk'd to type 165
b) bsdlabeled
c) formatted and used for most of 2 years as a UFS filesystem
Does this mean that geom_label's testing of filesysem type is weak?
Is there a workaround whereby I blank a sector not used by UFS?
Should geom_label take hints from the mbr type?
Dave.
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