Subject: disklabel/fdisk
To: None <port-cobalt@netbsd.org>
From: Ted Unangst <tedu@stanford.edu>
List: port-cobalt
Date: 09/30/2001 18:03:36
I'm having trouble getting my partition / disklabel info to "stick" to the
disk. I write it out, but then it seems to disappear. And I'm plagued by
these "wd0: no disklabel" messages. I'm hoping that I've got something
trivial wrong.
Partition table:
0: sysid 131 (Linux native)
start 1, size 19844 (9 MB), flag 0x0
beg: cylinder 0, head 0, sector 2
end: cylinder 20, head 14, sector 63
1: sysid 169 (NetBSD)
start 20480, size 8401360 (4102 MB), flag 0x0
beg: cylinder 21, head 10, sector 6
end: cylinder 719, head 14, sector 63
that part is consistent. after each boot, it's still there. but
disklabel always resets itself to this now:
c: 8401360 20480 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 21*- 8911)
d: 8421840 0 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 - 8911)
e: 19844 1 Linux Ext2 0 0 # (Cyl. 0*- 20)
f: 8401360 20480 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 21*- 8911)
g: 410130 877905 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 929 - 1362)
h: 7133805 1288035 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 1363 - 8911)
disklabel: boot block size 0
disklabel: super block size 0
I can mount the linux partition alright:
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
10.10.10.10:/nfsroot 2837026 1050456 1644719 38% /
/dev/wd0e 9603 13 9094 0% /mnt
and it works. but newfs won't work until i correct the disklabel. i'd
like something like this, right? but after i write it, newfs /dev/wd0a
runs for a while, prints lots of numbers, and then stops. The qube is
hung. So I reboot. However, after the reboot, the disklabel is back to
the wrong one above.
Help?
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