--- Malcolm Kay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Beware; if you write a disklabel (or presumably bsdlabel; I have no > experience > with 5.x) to ad6 you create a "dangerously dedicated" > disk, i.e. a disk without slices.
Ok. I am not saying that's what I want to do, I only mentioned it because the man page for disklabel/bsdlabel uses the entire disk (/dev/da0) as an example. "man disklabel" brings up bsdlabel, which is why I mention bsdlabel instead. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=bsdlabel > Are you saying that the disklabels reported for ad6s1 and ad6s1c are > different? This is correct. Your surprise suggests that it was good I mentioned that, eh? :) Glad I haven't done anything yet. In summary, ad6s1 returns an offset of 0 and no error. ad6s1c returns an offset of 63 and the rest of the info is identical except for the following error tagged on at the end: 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 partition e: partition extends past end of unit > Under FreeBSD 4.x ad6s1 and ad6s1c would normally be aliases referencing > the entire slice. Maybe 5.x is different! I'm now very confused. I'm not sure... maybe Sergey wants to pipe in here on this point? > What is reported by fdisk? Ah, I'm at work now. Can't do that from here... I'll let you know later. Thanks! _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
