Subject: Re: Unable to newfs logical disk in 1.6I-i386
To: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
From: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@netbsd.org>
List: current-users
Date: 10/09/2002 12:24:57
On Wed, 9 Oct 2002, Manuel Bouyer wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 12:09:40PM -0700, Bill Studenmund wrote:
> > That should be fine. All file systems leave a little space at the bottom
> > of the file system for boot programs. ffs leaves 8k, and ext2fs leaves I
> > think 2k. So the disklabel should be free & clear.
>
> So maybe something got wrong with the disklabel, and disklabel protection
> then ? sector 16 is at 8k from the start ...

I'd vote something wrong w/ disklabel protection.

Take care,

Bill