"geometry does not match label"
Paul B. Mahol
onemda at gmail.com
Sun Dec 21 01:43:22 UTC 2008
On 12/20/08, Christian Weisgerber <naddy at mips.inka.de> wrote:
> On booting a new kernel, I noticed a piece of kernel spew I don't
> remember seeing before:
>
> GEOM: ad6s1: geometry does not match label.
>
> bsdlabel offers suitably scary warnings:
>
> $ bsdlabel ad6s1
> # /dev/ad6s1:
> 8 partitions:
> # size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg]
> a: 2097152 63 4.2BSD 2048 16384 28528
> b: 8396800 2097215 swap
> c: 293041602 63 unused 0 0 # "raw" part, don't
> edit
> d: 20971520 10494015 4.2BSD 2048 16384 28528
> e: 2097152 31465535 4.2BSD 2048 16384 28528
> f: 62914560 33562687 4.2BSD 2048 16384 28528
> g: 62914560 96477247 4.2BSD 2048 16384 28528
> h: 133649858 159391807 4.2BSD 2048 16384 28528
> partition c: partition extends past end of unit
> bsdlabel: partition c doesn't start at 0!
> bsdlabel: An incorrect partition c may cause problems for standard system
> utilities
> partition h: partition extends past end of unit
>
> I don't know where this is coming from--the system was installed
> about a year ago with standard sysinstall--and I don't see what's
> supposed to be wrong.
>
> $ gpart show
> => 63 293046705 ad6 MBR (140G)
> 63 293041602 1 freebsd [active] (140G)
> 293041665 5103 - free - (2.5M)
>
> => 0 293041602 ad6s1 BSD (140G)
> 0 2097152 1 freebsd-ufs (1.0G)
> 2097152 8396800 2 freebsd-swap (4.0G)
> 10493952 20971520 4 freebsd-ufs (10G)
> 31465472 2097152 5 freebsd-ufs (1.0G)
> 33562624 62914560 6 freebsd-ufs (30G)
> 96477184 62914560 7 freebsd-ufs (30G)
> 159391744 133649858 8 freebsd-ufs (64G)
>
> Ideas?
Known "problem", happens after geom_{bsd,mbr} have been
replaced with geom_part_{bsd,mbr} in /sys/$ARCH/conf/DEFAULTS
--
Paul
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