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- --On Wednesday, March 28, 2007 16:41:28 -0400 Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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. Neat, that seems to do it ... but, shouldn't that be disklabel's default behaviour be for the initial -w operation? Thanks though, seems to have worked great ... - ---- Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email . [EMAIL PROTECTED] MSN . [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo . yscrappy Skype: hub.org ICQ . 7615664 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFGCtSQ4QvfyHIvDvMRAtCwAJ9JxiON1i8EvHjJcB4On3usQ5YGbwCbBpKv JI8xirWGrOpDdDqdytuc5pU= =MU77 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
