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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!EU.net!Germany.EU.net!news From: bs@Germany.EU.net (Bernard Steiner) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: disklabel ( was: Re: PCFS ( was Re: FREE BSD)) Date: 8 Jul 1994 09:42:05 +0200 Organization: EUnet Deutschland GmbH, Dortmund, Germany Lines: 24 Distribution: world Message-ID: <2vj00d$oa3@Germany.EU.net> References: <CsC8n3.1Kv@suncd.abc.se> <2vctk8$sn@pdq.coe.montana.edu> <2vfbe5$52f@steele.ohsu.edu> <2vh3dn$c9v@pdq.coe.montana.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: qwerty.germany.eu.net In article <2vh3dn$c9v@pdq.coe.montana.edu>, nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) writes: |> When you first installed FreeBSD, one of the questions was 'Do you want |> to have access to your DOS partition?'. At this point FreeBSD would have |> correctly setup a disklabel to 'Do The Right Thing'. Modifying the disklabel |> after the fact is not for the faint-of-heart. <this applies to FreeBSD 1.1.0 beta, which I'm still running> The other day, when I was playing with my SCSI disk, I put a disklabel on it that said something like "partition a is at offset one cylinder from the start of the drive". When I then went to do a "dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rsd0a" I got some "read only filesystem" error. This condition went away after I had used "disklabel -W sd0". Methinks some parts of the system that do magic things with information obtained from the disklabel are (were ?) not doing what they were supposed to do. Okay, I'll grab 1.1.5.1 (this is getting as bad as Linux version numbering, you know) and install that on the SCSI drive. Maybe I'll wait for some responses regarding the filesystem tuning... -Bernard