Re: "geometry does not match label"

On 12/20/08, Christian Weisgerber <naddy_at_mips.inka.de> wrote:
> On booting a new kernel, I noticed a piece of kernel spew I don't
> remember seeing before:
>
> GEOM: ad6s1: geometry does not match label.
>
> bsdlabel offers suitably scary warnings:
>
> $ bsdlabel ad6s1
> # /dev/ad6s1:
> 8 partitions:
> #        size   offset    fstype   [fsize bsize bps/cpg]
>   a:  2097152       63    4.2BSD     2048 16384 28528
>   b:  8396800  2097215      swap
>   c: 293041602       63    unused        0     0         # "raw" part, don't
> edit
>   d: 20971520 10494015    4.2BSD     2048 16384 28528
>   e:  2097152 31465535    4.2BSD     2048 16384 28528
>   f: 62914560 33562687    4.2BSD     2048 16384 28528
>   g: 62914560 96477247    4.2BSD     2048 16384 28528
>   h: 133649858 159391807    4.2BSD     2048 16384 28528
> 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.
>
> $ gpart show
> =>       63  293046705  ad6  MBR  (140G)
>          63  293041602    1  freebsd  [active]  (140G)
>   293041665       5103       - free -  (2.5M)
>
> =>        0  293041602  ad6s1  BSD  (140G)
>           0    2097152      1  freebsd-ufs  (1.0G)
>     2097152    8396800      2  freebsd-swap  (4.0G)
>    10493952   20971520      4  freebsd-ufs  (10G)
>    31465472    2097152      5  freebsd-ufs  (1.0G)
>    33562624   62914560      6  freebsd-ufs  (30G)
>    96477184   62914560      7  freebsd-ufs  (30G)
>   159391744  133649858      8  freebsd-ufs  (64G)
>
> Ideas?

Known "problem", happens after geom_{bsd,mbr} have been
replaced with geom_part_{bsd,mbr} in /sys/$ARCH/conf/DEFAULTS

-- 
Paul