On 08/09/13 22:54, Kenneth R Westerback wrote:
On Fri, Aug 09, 2013 at 11:38:16AM +0200, Federico Giannici wrote:
I don't know how I made it (probably in previous releases of OS),
but now I have a disk with the following disklabel:
# /dev/rsd2c:
type: SCSI
disk: SCSI disk
label: ST1000DM003-9YN1
duid: b0e3fc037df87899
flags:
bytes/sector: 512
sectors/track: 63
tracks/cylinder: 255
sectors/cylinder: 16065
cylinders: 121601
total sectors: 1953525168
boundstart: 64
boundend: 1953520065
drivedata: 0
16 partitions:
# size offset fstype [fsize bsize cpg]
a: 1953519936 64 4.2BSD 8192 65536 1 # /bu
c: 1953525168 0 4.2BSD 2048 16384 1
As you can see the "c" partition is not of type "unused", and some
commands complain of this.
I wasn't able to change this situation. I tried with "disklabel -E
sd2", "disklabel -d sd2", "disklabel -R sd2 proto" (with a proper
"proto" file), but nothing changed.
What is the proper way to handle this?
Please note that "a" partition contains data that must be preserved
(I umounted that partition before all disklabel commands).
The system is a 5.3 amd64, and sd2 is a normal SATA disk.
Thanks.
disklabel(8) contains a description of the 'z' command available
in the -E mode. It should kill 'c' dead. Just add 'a' back with the
same parameters it had brfore.
Not that Nick's solution isn't more fun!
.... Ken
Unfortunately neither your suggestion or the Nick's one worked (the 4b
variant), the disklabel remained always the same...
Thanks.
