14 messages in org.freebsd.freebsd-questionsWhy is 'disklabel'ng a new drive so d...| From | Sent On | Attachments |
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| Marc G. Fournier | Mar 28, 2007 8:26 pm | |
| Kris Kennaway | Mar 28, 2007 8:41 pm | |
| Marc G. Fournier | Mar 28, 2007 8:48 pm | |
| ill...@gmail.com | Mar 28, 2007 9:04 pm | |
| Jerry McAllister | Mar 28, 2007 9:20 pm | |
| Jerry McAllister | Mar 28, 2007 9:24 pm | |
| Jerry McAllister | Mar 28, 2007 9:29 pm | |
| RW | Mar 28, 2007 9:48 pm | |
| Jerry McAllister | Mar 28, 2007 10:13 pm | |
| Antony Mawer | Mar 29, 2007 10:07 pm | |
| Jerry McAllister | Mar 29, 2007 11:22 pm | |
| Antony Mawer | Mar 29, 2007 11:55 pm | |
| Jerry McAllister | Mar 30, 2007 3:09 pm | |
| Daniel Eriksson | Mar 31, 2007 9:35 am |
| Subject: | Why is 'disklabel'ng a new drive so difficult? | |
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| From: | Kris Kennaway (kr...@obsecurity.org) | |
| Date: | Mar 28, 2007 8:41:10 pm | |
| List: | org.freebsd.freebsd-questions | |
On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 05:26:49PM -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
Just bought a new WD SATA drive: WDC WD5000YS-01MPB1 09.02E09
Tried to disklabel it, and it gives me all kinds of warnings when I look at it after running the disklabel:
ganymede# bsdlabel -w ad4s1 auto ganymede# bsdlabel ad4s1c # /dev/ad4s1c: 8 partitions: # size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] a: 976767986 79 unused 0 0 c: 976768002 63 unused 0 0 # "raw" part, don't edit partition a: partition extends past end of unit 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
Even if I try to use /stand/sysinstall to do the fdisk, the end result has 'issues' ...
So, what is the generally accepted method of label'ng a new drive? :(
I learned a useful trick the other day: you can use abbreviations like "1g", also '*' to mean "automatically calculate". See the manpage.
Kris