WARNING: Expected rawoffset 0, found 63 ?

[Paul Mather]

On Fri, 2004-09-24 at 15:19, Chris Elsworth wrote:

> app1# bsdlabel -r /dev/mirror/gm
> # /dev/mirror/gm:
> 8 partitions:
> #        size   offset    fstype   [fsize bsize bps/cpg]
>   a: 71119675       16    unused        0     0
>   c: 71119691        0    unused        0     0         # "raw" part, don't edit
> 
> 
> So now another two things crop up - where has that a partition come from
> (perhaps that's just what bsdlabel -w does by default, no big deal)
> but more importantly, why do they both have an offset of 16 bytes..
> It didn't seem to mind me changing it to zero, though. So now I'll see
> if I can get it booting :)

I believe the above is bsdlabel's idea of an "auto" label.  I don't know
why the 16 sector offset for the "a" partition, because you don't get
that when you label a slice via sysinstall and choose the "auto
defaults."  (Maybe there's a case for making bsdlabel's "auto" label
behave the same as sysinstall.)

I edited mine from 16 to 0, too, when using (roughly) the same label as
my sysinstalled minimal system on the mirror device.  I haven't noticed
any ill effects (touch wood:).

Cheers,

Paul.
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