Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote: > On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 07:14:19PM +0100, Ulrich Spoerlein wrote: > +> The problem is known (at least) to me. The last '*' will expand to the > +> complete remaining size of the disk, not taking the offset '16' for > +> partition 'a' into account. So either change the offset of 'a' to '0' > +> (why is there such an offset anyway?) or calculate it by hand. > > It is very, _very_ important. Those 16 secotors is where bsdlabel(8) > store its metadata. If you put 0 there, be ready to lose your > partitions. > > Swap skips first 16 sectors, so it won't touch it. UFS skips first 16 > sectors, so you are safe here as well, but those are evil hacks. > If you configure something else on first partition which starts at > offset 0 (eg. encrypted partition) you are in big troubles. Thanks for that explanation. So does bsdlabel take this offset into account for the '*'? This never worked for me ... Ulrich Spoerlein -- PGP Key ID: 20FEE9DD Encrypted mail welcome! Fingerprint: AEC9 AF5E 01AC 4EE1 8F70 6CBD E76E 2227 20FE E9DD Which is worse: ignorance or apathy? Don't know. Don't care.
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