Hi!

On Tue, 21 Oct 1997, Paul Bickford wrote:

> 
> OK, I'm trying to prepare a drive on my DS3100 to install NetBSD onto, but
> I keep getting the following error:
> 
> # disklabel -w -B -b rzboot -s bootrz rz1 st
> disklabel: ioctl DIOCSDINFO: Open partition would move or shrink.
> #
> 
You could try:

Leave out steps 1 and 2 if there is already some crude label on your disk.
The -r flag tells disklabel to read/write directly on the disk. Please 
don't forget it.

1)
disklabel -r -W rz0
    (this makes the disk writeable)

2)
dd if=/dev/rrz0c of=/dev/rrz1c count=20
    (this copies the disklabel from rz0 to rz1, assumed rz0 is your boot 
    disk and rz1 is the disk you want to label)

3)
disklabel -r -e rz1
    to adjust the drive parameters. Don't touch the partition entries in 
    this step.

    If you get an error that some partition exceeds disk size, then you need 
    to make the offending ones (likely c) smaller by a step similar to 5.

4)
disklabel -r rz1
    to find out what the label looks like.

    Look for partitions starting with offset 0, which may not be c, if your 
    disk is smaller than the current entry for c. The 

    Assumed a is beginning at 0, then do:

5)
disklabel -r -e /dev/rrz1a

    and set the size of the c partition to the totlal disk size.

    In the last step, do again:

6)
disklabel -r -e /dev/rrz1a
    
    and set the other partition offsets, sizes and filesys parameters to the 
    values you like.
 
Hope this helps.

Greetings,
Reinhold Huber