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: | Jerry McAllister (jerr...@msu.edu) | |
| Date: | Mar 30, 2007 3:09:04 pm | |
| List: | org.freebsd.freebsd-questions | |
On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 09:56:04AM +1000, Antony Mawer wrote:
On 30/03/2007 9:22 AM, Jerry McAllister wrote:
On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 08:07:23AM +1000, Antony Mawer wrote:
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Is it important to use 16 as the offset still, or is this a historical piece of information that is no longer relevant? Or is this is a bug in disklabel that should be fixed?
As I indicated in another post in this thread, it appears to be vestigial. I have never used it for a bsdlabel(disklabel) being done on a slice - since 1998.
I just went back and re-read your other messages in the thread. I must have glossed over that part of them - my apologies! I too looked at my sysinstall-created labels, and they were all at offset of 0.
I actually started writing my own partitioning/labelling tool based on libdisk, as part of a custom install CD I was building, but discovered that it did not support non-disk devices (eg. gmirror)... I started looking at trying to hack support into libdisk to do so (and made some success), but in the end decided that it was probably a task better suited for someone that knows libdisk better than I...
Interesting. I have never monkeyed with that. Maybe I should. I might learn something.
////jerry
As a result I went back to looking at fdisk/bsdlabel to see what I could do using them instead...