WARNING: Expected rawoffset 0, found 63 ?

[Paul Mather]

On Fri, 2004-09-24 at 17:50, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> In message <1096056348.9306.87.camel at zappa.Chelsea-Ct.Org>, Paul Mather writes:

> >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.)
> 
> The 16 offset is to protect the disklabel and boot code.  You have no
> idea how much I hate the person who made the hack to leave the metadata
> inside the trafic partitions.

So I guess the case to be made is really to have sysinstall behave the
same as bsdlabel, not vice versa.

I'm presuming sysinstall-style partition-a-starts-at-offset-0 labels are
still safe, though, right?

Cheers,

Paul.
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