On Mon, Oct 23, 2006 at 09:42:55PM +0000, Christos Zoulas wrote:
>In article <20061023201529.GB16473@run.galis.org>,
>George Georgalis <george@galis.org> wrote:
>>On Mon, Oct 23, 2006 at 06:11:06PM +0000, Christos Zoulas wrote:
>>>In article <20061023143323.GA19828@run.galis.org>,
>>>George Georgalis <george@galis.org> wrote:
>>>>On Sun, Oct 22, 2006 at 08:57:18PM -0400, George Georgalis wrote:
>>>>>While I was unloading a disk with errors, I noticed the partition
>>>>>table was odd, I tried to fix it and now, basically the situation
>>>>>can be reduced to the c and d partitions have been deleted.
>>>>
>>>>BTW - I DID get all the needed data off the drive before I started
>>>>mucking with the partition table and this is the output of fdisk
>>>>and disklabel
>>>>
>>>> $ fdisk wd1 
>>>>fdisk: DIOCGDEFLABEL: Inappropriate ioctl for device
>>>>fdisk: DIOCGDINFO: Inappropriate ioctl for device
>>>> $ disklabel wd1                                                        
>>>>
>>>>disklabel: Invalid signature in mbr record 0
>>>>disklabel: ioctl DIOCGDINFO: Inappropriate ioctl for device
>>>>
>>>>I'm pretty sure this has nothing to do with the disk errors that
>>>>started this journey.  The system happens to be 3.1_RC2, but
>>>>if needed, I could change this box easily enough.  What other
>>>>commands are available to doctor the disk?
>>>
>>>what does ls -l /dev/rwd1* say?
>>
>> $ ls -l /dev/rwd1* 
>>-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel        267324504 Oct 21 18:31 /dev/rwd1
>
>I think you should remove that :-)

gone.

I can use to "disklabel -i -I wd1" to add or remove partitions c
or d; but there is a special property of d being 63 sectors larger
then the largest c ("entire disk") which I cannot reproduce...
that's where I'm stuck.

// George


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George Georgalis, systems architect, administrator <IXOYE><