Broken Disk

[Jason Dusek]

 > So, anyway, user questions should not be surprising.
 > (But please ask reasonably specific questions or it is hard to
 > give a relevant answer)
 >
 > ////jerry

Fair Enough,

My question is 'how do I edit a disklabel?' I assume that I am supposed 
to add an 'e' partition, but it seems that the c partition has eaten my 
disk. The partition file looks like this:

<...stuff in the front omitted...>
8 partitions:
#        size   offset    fstype   [fsize bsize bps/cpg]
   c: 78164037        0    4.2BSD     2048 16384    89   # (Cyl.    0 - 
12406*)

Does this mean that my disk is 'dangerously dedicated'? Isn't the fstype 
supposed to be 'ufs'? How do I toggle soft updates? I want to use this 
disk as backup media, so is one undifferentiated partition a good idea?
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Jerry McAllister wrote:
>>Jason Dusek wrote:
>>
>>>Hi,
>>>
>>>Through a combination of this list's suggestions, I managed to get fdisk 
>>>to successfully operate on my disk. Thanks. However, the step about 
>>>'editing my label' as given in the handbook:
>>>
>>># disklabel -e da1s1 # Edit the disklabel just created.
>>>
>>>is not something I really understand. Where is some nice documentation 
>>>on this?
>>
>>"man disklabel" is pretty comprehensive.
> 
> 
> Yes.  But, you have to read it together with man fdisk to make any
> sense of it and even then the writing is rather convoluted and confusing.  
> They could both use a complete systematic rewrite.   I don't think I
> know enough of the extra stuff (the stuff I don't usually use) to do 
> it or I would try it.
> 
> So, anyway, user questions should not be surprising.
> (But please ask reasonably specific questions or it is hard to
> give a relevant answer)
> 
> ////jerry
> 
> 
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