Re: "geometry does not match label"

on 26/12/2008 10:54 David O'Brien said the following:
> On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 06:43:49PM -0800, Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
>> On Dec 20, 2008, at 9:22 AM, Christian Weisgerber wrote:
>> Apparently sysinstall creates faulty disklabels.
> 
> Is this also fallout?
> 
> # fsck /dev/ad8s4f
> fsck: Could not determine filesystem type

Can't comment on the above, about the below - I think that you have to
use gpart(8) once you switched a kernel to GEOM_PART, disklabel would
not "get" it.

> # disklabel /dev/ad8s4f
> # /dev/ad8s4f:
> 8 partitions:
> #        size   offset    fstype   [fsize bsize bps/cpg]
>   c: 83441610 150994935    unused        0     0         # "raw" part, don't edit
>   f: 83441610 150994935    4.2BSD        0     0     0
> partition c: offset past end of unit
> partition c: partition extends past end of unit
> disklabel: partition c doesn't start at 0!
> disklabel: An incorrect partition c may cause problems for standard system utilities
> partition f: offset past end of unit
> partition f: partition extends past end of unit



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Andriy Gapon