partition new hard disk

[Riccardo Mottola <riccardo.mottola%libero.it@localhost>]

Hi,

prior to the problem of dump and restore my HD, i Need a good way to 
partition my hard disk!

I tried using fdisk and disklabel, but failed as I wrote. It appears 
aprtitioned, i make a newfs and then fsck will fail. Also entering 
manually an offset found embyrically was strange.

I thus just attached the HDD in a usb enclosure, booted 6.1 install cd 
(I had to use another laptop, on the current one it segmentation faults, 
but that's a different problem), partitioned and then aborted 
installation. Voilà, a well partitioned and formatted disk. Reattached 
to my netbsd laptop, I check the disklabel, which is:
16 partitions:
#        size    offset     fstype [fsize bsize cpg/sgs]
 a:  60958720        63     4.2BSD   2048 16384     0  # (Cyl. 0*-  29765*)
 b:   1574849  60958783       swap                     # (Cyl. 29765*-  
30533)
 c:  62533569        63     unused      0     0        # (Cyl. 0*-  30533)
 d:  62533632         0     unused      0     0        # (Cyl. 0 -  30533)


so now, let us fsck (the still unmounted disk!)

bash-4.2# fsck /dev/sd0a
** /dev/rsd0a
Invalid signature in fsinfo blockfix? [yn] y
Unable to write FSInfo (Read-only file system)

With this I am at loss. I can mount it, touch a file... but how is it 
that fsck fails this way?

Hmm.

What I find very strange is that there are no partition in fdisk. Is 
this due to the fact that during install I told to "use entire disk" ?
bash-4.2# fdisk /dev/sd0a
fdisk: Can't read secondary GPT header: Invalid argument
fdisk: Cannot determine the number of heads
Disk: /dev/sd0a
NetBSD disklabel disk geometry:
cylinders: 30534, heads: 64, sectors/track: 32 (2048 sectors/cylinder)
total sectors: 62533632, bytes/sector: 512

BIOS disk geometry:
cylinders: 1023, heads: 255, sectors/track: 63 (16065 sectors/cylinder)
total sectors: 62533632

Partitions aligned to 16065 sector boundaries, offset 63

Partition table:
0: <UNUSED>
1: <UNUSED>
2: <UNUSED>
3: <UNUSED>
No active partition.

Riccardo



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