Re: "geometry does not match label"

On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 06:43:49PM -0800, Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
On Dec 20, 2008, at 9:22 AM, Christian Weisgerber wrote:
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 h: partition extends past end of unit

I don't know where this is coming from--the system was installed
about a year ago with standard sysinstall--and I don't see what's
supposed to be wrong.

Apparently sysinstall creates faulty disklabels.

Can you elaborate? I'm getting it on several machines also.
Right now, I'm trying to upgrade to a larger disk in one machine
tonight... Xmas present to myself...

What is the "approved" way to slice a disk into 4 regular slices and
than partition the slices? The only sane way to do this is (was?)
sysintall/SADE.

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