On Tuesday, Mar 4, 2003, at 14:55 US/Mountain, Mike Meyer wrote:
However, I am wanting some second opinions on this,
and since I am not a disklabel guru, some guidance on how to use disklabel
without screwing up my system would be appreciated.
Basically, run "disklabel -e /dev/da0s1". That will create a temporary file with the disklabel in it, and open an editor on that file. Delete the line - if it exists - for a, copy the e line to where it was, and then change the initial e to an a. Then save the file and exit the editor. Fix your fstab to refer to da0s1a instead of da0s1e, and reboot.
Okay, should I be able to have an "a" and an "e" that overlap? Disklabel doesn't seem to want to let me do this.
before:
8 partitions:
# size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg]
c: 803187 0 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 - 49*)
e: 803187 0 4.2BSD 0 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 - 49*)
after:
8 partitions:
# size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg]
a: 803187 0 4.2BSD 0 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 - 49*)
c: 803187 0 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 - 49*)
e: 803187 0 4.2BSD 0 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 - 49*)
I get a "partitions 'a' and 'e' overlap -- reedit?" or something very similar to this. If I say no, it quits out but then reading the disklabel back in shows no "a". if I try and replace "e" with "a" so that there is only one I get an error "disklabel: ioctl DIOCWDINFO: open partition would move or shrink" and it won't let me do that either, even in '-r' mode which should only affect the on disk label and not the memory label(??) .
So I am still not getting this to work. (4.7 machine)
thanks Chad
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