On Tue, 11 Nov 2003, Dag-Erling [iso-8859-1] Smørgrav wrote: > I've been busy installing various OSes on a spare disk in order to try > to reproduce some of fefe's benchmarks. In the process, I've noticed > a couple of bogons in boot0 and disklabel: > > - disklabel -B trashes the partition table: > > # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ad0 count=20 > # fdisk -i ad0 > (create a FreeBSD partition) > # disklabel -rw ad0s1 auto > # newfs -U /dev/ad0s1a > # disklabel -B ad0s1a > (this trashes the partition table)
I think you mean bsdlabel. disklabel is just a link to bsdlabel in -current. This was fixed in rev.1.8 of disklabel.c, but the change was lost in bsdlabel. > This probably happens because fdisk silently allows the user to > create a partition that overlaps the partition table. Arguably > pilot error, but very confusing at the time, and fdisk should warn > about it. Yes. This is the dangerously undedicated case. Some consider this to be an error. I only ever used it for one drive. Bruce _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
