On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 05:26:49PM -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > > Just bought a new WD SATA drive: WDC WD5000YS-01MPB1 09.02E09 > > Tried to disklabel it, and it gives me all kinds of warnings when I look at > it > after running the disklabel: > > > ganymede# bsdlabel -w ad4s1 auto > ganymede# bsdlabel ad4s1c > # /dev/ad4s1c: > 8 partitions: > # size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] > a: 976767986 79 unused 0 0 > c: 976768002 63 unused 0 0 # "raw" part, don't > edit > partition a: partition extends past end of unit > partition c: partition extends past end of unit > bsdlabel: partition c doesn't start at 0! > bsdlabel: An incorrect partition c may cause problems for standard system > utilities > > Even if I try to use /stand/sysinstall to do the fdisk, the end result has > 'issues' ... > > So, what is the generally accepted method of label'ng a new drive? :(
I learned a useful trick the other day: you can use abbreviations like "1g", also '*' to mean "automatically calculate". See the manpage. Kris _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
