Tony Abernethy wrote: > James Hartley wrote: >> On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 1:21 AM, kim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Just out of interest, what happens when you delete the 'c' >> partition? I >>> understood it deleted the drive spec but is this >> irreversible? can you >>> low level format the drive or repopulate the information >> some other way, >>> or with some other format software? >> The definitive answer to your question is to try & see. Although I >> have been curious about this at times, I haven't been so curious to >> invest the time to experiment. >> >> As for conjecture, I would doubt that there is any physical harm in >> deleting *all* partitions, but I doubt if there are any tools which >> would reverse the result. I suspect one would end up having to >> reinstall, but again, this is only a guess.
> on an old installation (old computer, old OBSD) <snip> > partition to modify: [] c > FS type: [unused] > offset: [0] 3 > The OpenBSD portion of the disk starts at sector 63, you tried to add a > partition at 3. You can use the 'b' command to change the size of the > OpenBSD portion. > offset: [0] 66 > size: [488397168] >> w > > At this point, something is surely wrecked, HOWEVER > I can log in again and disklabel now gives The question being because I once did it, got stuck, gave up, got another harddrive and continued playing. It was more because I never knew what id done, and the manual doesnt seem to hold the information how to get unstuck from this grey area. > Ah well. > Time to wipe and reinstall something more like -current. > Nothing quite like the feeling of wiping the disk you are running on;) I don't know about most people but I quite enjoy the pleasure of being utterly confused by the state of the art partition system that comes with obsd, its a bit like the installer it shows me how minuscule my knowledge is yet even with a mundane understanding I can get a somewhat working system. Thanks for the info, and the experiment results, It might be a good idea to publish a webpage with the details of what you did, and how you unstuck yourself from the situation. K _______________________________________________ Openbsd-newbies mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.theapt.org/listinfo/openbsd-newbies
