Re: bsdlabel warnings

From: Poul-Henning Kamp (phk_at_phk.freebsd.dk)
Date: 07/30/03

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    To: "Petri Helenius" <pete@he.iki.fi>
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2003 12:20:59 +0200

    In message <006501c35683$ffec3300$812a40c1@PETEX31>, "Petri Helenius" writes:
    >
    >Is this normal that multiple installations of 5.1-RELEASE complain
    >when running bsdlabel:
    ># /dev/ad0s1:
    >8 partitions:
    ># size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg]
    > a: 524288 63 4.2BSD 2048 16384 32776
    > b: 4194304 524351 swap
    > c: 39102273 63 unused 0 0 # "raw" part, don't edit
    > d: 1048576 4718655 4.2BSD 2048 16384 8
    > e: 33335105 5767231 4.2BSD 2048 16384 28552
    >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
    >
    >This does not seem to happen if the disk has been labeled by previous
    >versions and upgraded from source.

    That sounds interesting. Can you send me the outout of:

            diskinfo /dev/ad0*
            sysctl -b kern.geom.confxml 

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