Subject: Re: Is this a new disk problem?
To: Colin Wood <cwood@ichips.intel.com>
From: Henry B. Hotz <hotz@jpl.nasa.gov>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 07/09/1998 16:00:10
At 3:25 PM -0700 7/9/98, Colin Wood wrote:
>Henry B. Hotz wrote:
>> At 12:52 PM -0700 7/9/98, Dr. Bill Studenmund wrote:
>> >What does disklabel say for sd3?
>>
>> 6 partitions:
>> #        size   offset    fstype   [fsize bsize   cpg]
>>   a:  1226685      795     unknown                        # (Cyl.    1 -
>>1543)
>>   b:    81885  1227480     unknown                        # (Cyl. 1544 -
>>1646)
>>   c:  1309735        0      unused        0     0         # (Cyl.    0 -
>>1647*)
>>   d:      370  1309365     unknown                        # (Cyl. 1647 -
>>1647*)
>>   e:      328       96     unknown                        # (Cyl.    0*- 0*)
>>   f:      371      424     unknown                        # (Cyl.    0*- 0*)
>> disklabel: boot block size 0
>> disklabel: super block size 0
>
>You did say that this contains NetBSD partitions, right?  I'd say
>something was definitely wrong with the formatting here....did you zap
>these with Mkfs?

I don't remember, but I suspect I used newfs under NetBSD.  Would that
account for it?  I thought the disklabel code only looks at the apple
partition map, not at the actual partition contents.

Anyway, yes, they are *BSD partitions, not hfs partitions.

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