On 10/25/07, Theo de Raadt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I noticed one problem with the disklabel output while installing 4.2 > > It automatically detected the file system in my first slice which is > > fat32 wrongly as 4.2BSD > > disklabel does not "automatically detect" filesystem types. >
Thank you so much for the reply :-) I went through the disklabel(5) and disklabel(8) man pages meanwhile. And this is what I understood. The disklabel information is ( created and ) located on a place called "LABELSECTOR " usually sector 0 during the first OpenBSD install. usually it is on sector "0" So in my case 1: A6 1216 0 1 - 2431 254 63 [ 19535040: 19535040 ] OpenBSD it is located on sector 0 of head 0 of cylinder 1216. initially when the disk label was created file systems of partitions i,j,k,l,m were not marked anything ============================================== 6 partitions: # size offset fstype [fsize bsize cpg] a: 18309312 19535040 4.2BSD 2048 16384 1 b: 1225728 37844352 swap c: 78165360 0 unused 0 0 i: 19534977 63 4.2BSD 2048 16384 328 j: 15631245 39070080 ext2fs k: 995967 54701388 unknown l: 11711322 55697418 ext2fs m: 10747422 67408803 ext2fs =============================================== And then I marked them Specifically some how as 4.2BSD ex2fs etc. I don't remember well how. Now that I am Installing 4.2 on the same slice as where 4.0 resided earlier disklabel is reading the data from sector 0 of head 0 of cylinder 1216. or am I totally confused and need to read a book that speaks about disklabel and disk basics? :-) > in the past, you have SPECIFICALLY said it was a 4.2 filesystem on > that partition. > It is really cool if I did that :-) I don't remember ho but Thank you so much Kind Regards Siju
