On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 05:22:07AM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 02:13:45PM +0200, andys wrote: > > 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 > > It's complaining that 285153687 (see "c" partition) does not equal > 285155328 (see "sectors/unit" up top). > > > thanks for any advice, Im not really confident with the FreeBSD disk > > management as I havent used it much, > > I'm left wondering why you're messing around with bsdlabel on a FreeBSD > install in the first place. :-)
Do you mean - as apposed to letting sysinstall handle it? Yah, I would let sysinstall do the disk mangling, but maybe he did something else. ////jerry > > -- > | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | > | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | > | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | > | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB | > > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
