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Subject:Why is 'disklabel'ng a new drive so difficult?
From:Marc G. Fournier (free@hub.org)
Date:Mar 28, 2007 8:26:40 pm
List:org.freebsd.freebsd-questions

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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? :(

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