I just posted a hack that should stop this from happenning
how does it look? (I haven't tested it.).


On Fri, 13 Dec 2002, Maxim Sobolev wrote:

> I've also bumped into this problem, when after upgrading memory I
> didn't increase swap size, so that after a panic the system
> overwrote disklabel. Fortunately, my root partition was placed
> after swap, not before it, so that recreating disklaber revived
> the system.
> 
> -Maxim
> 
> On Fri, Dec 13, 2002 at 12:52:52PM -0800, Julian Elischer wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > On Fri, 13 Dec 2002, Dan Nelson wrote:
> > 
> > > In the last episode (Dec 13), Julian Elischer said:
> > > > It's always been there. the question is 
> > > > "Who has broken it?"
> > 
> > I think this is a 5.0 showstopper. Having 5.0 overwrite your
> > Windows partition would be "poor" PR.
> > Having a quick look at it, it shouldn't be too hard for PHK
> > to fix it as he has all the correct parts currently "loaded"
> > into his head. Especially such things as making GEOM not allow writes
> > to -ve blocknumbers (as must have happenned for root to have been
> > overwritten).
> > 
> > > 
> > > I think it has just slowly bitrotted.  I opened a PR on this in
> > > November.
> > > 
> > > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/45777
> > > 
> > > -- 
> > >   Dan Nelson
> > >   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > 
> > 
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