bsdlabel partiton c error message on new install

andys a.smith at ukgrid.net
Fri Oct 17 15:34:17 UTC 2008


Hi, 

on a newly installed FreeBSD 7.0 system on a dell 1950 server I see the 
following error from bsdlabel. Is there any known issues with this or is the 
only reasonable explanation that I have managed to mess it up without even 
knowing? :P And should I manually change the partition c to fix the prob? Is 
this safe to do? 

bsdlabel -A /dev/da0s1
# /dev/da0s1:
type: SCSI
disk: da0s1
label:
flags:
bytes/sector: 512
sectors/track: 63
tracks/cylinder: 255
sectors/cylinder: 16065
cylinders: 17750
sectors/unit: 285155328
rpm: 3600
interleave: 1
trackskew: 0
cylinderskew: 0
headswitch: 0           # milliseconds
track-to-track seek: 0  # milliseconds
drivedata: 0 

8 partitions:
#        size   offset    fstype   [fsize bsize bps/cpg]
a: 20971520        0    4.2BSD     2048 16384 28552
b: 20971520 75497472      swap
c: 285153687        0    unused        0     0         # "raw" part, don't 
edit
d: 20971520 20971520    4.2BSD     2048 16384 28552
e: 20971520 41943040    4.2BSD     2048 16384 28552
f: 12582912 62914560    4.2BSD     2048 16384 28552
bsdlabel: partition c doesn't cover the whole unit!
bsdlabel: An incorrect partition c may cause problems for standard system 
utilities 


thanks for any advice, Im not really confident with the FreeBSD disk 
management as I havent used it much, 

thanks Andy.


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