> So, anyway, user questions should not be surprising. > (But please ask reasonably specific questions or it is hard to > give a relevant answer) > > ////jerry
Fair Enough,
My question is 'how do I edit a disklabel?' I assume that I am supposed to add an 'e' partition, but it seems that the c partition has eaten my disk. The partition file looks like this:
<...stuff in the front omitted...>
8 partitions:
# size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg]
c: 78164037 0 4.2BSD 2048 16384 89 # (Cyl. 0 - 12406*)
Does this mean that my disk is 'dangerously dedicated'? Isn't the fstype supposed to be 'ufs'? How do I toggle soft updates? I want to use this disk as backup media, so is one undifferentiated partition a good idea?
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Jerry McAllister wrote:
Jason Dusek wrote:
Hi,
Through a combination of this list's suggestions, I managed to get fdisk to successfully operate on my disk. Thanks. However, the step about 'editing my label' as given in the handbook:
# disklabel -e da1s1 # Edit the disklabel just created.
is not something I really understand. Where is some nice documentation on this?
"man disklabel" is pretty comprehensive.
Yes. But, you have to read it together with man fdisk to make any
sense of it and even then the writing is rather convoluted and confusing. They could both use a complete systematic rewrite. I don't think I
know enough of the extra stuff (the stuff I don't usually use) to do it or I would try it.
So, anyway, user questions should not be surprising. (But please ask reasonably specific questions or it is hard to give a relevant answer)
////jerry
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