Yes that is part of the information on the label; I want to write, the
"old default partitioning" information for the disk is incorrect
( the old number of sectors for c is larger than the disk physically has
:-( ).

All I really want to be able to do is wipe the old incorrect disklabel and
start again.

Any suggestions bearing in mind my previous mail about dd to the first 3
blocks of the disk giving a read-only error?

Thanks

Tony


On Mon, 14 Apr 1997, Jarle Fredrik Greipsland wrote:

> Tony Povoas writes:
> > disklabel -w -B sd1 sdsg42100
> > disklabel: Dec  9 13:11:45 marat /netbsd: sd1: WARNING: no disk label,
> > using old default partitioning
> > warning, boot overlaps partition c, marked as FS_BOOT
> > disklabel: ioctl DIOCSDINFO: Open partition would move or shrink
> 
> You wouldn't per chance be trying to change the size of sd1c (from
> what the "old default partitioning" reports)?  I tried some of this
> labeling stuff yesterday, and I found that as long as the size of the
> 'c' partition remained constant I could change almost anything else.
> However, if I tried to screw around with the number of sectors of the
> 'c' partition I got the same error messages that you got.
> 
> 					-jarle
> -- 
> "On a clear disk you can seek forever."
> 			-- Peter O'Toole (Trinity College, Dublin)
>