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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!solace!nntp.uio.no!news.cais.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.msfc.nasa.gov!news.larc.nasa.gov!maui.cc.odu.edu!news From: Jamie Bowden <bowden@cs.odu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: disklabel Date: Thu, 2 May 1996 15:17:49 -0400 (EDT) Organization: Old Dominion University Lines: 51 Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.90.960502151447.1568B-100000@sandstorm.cs.odu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: sandstorm.cs.odu.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII I redid one of the drives on my news server the other night, and am wondering how important is the label. I booted an install floppy to repartition. Heres the relevant info: 3:18pm tyger /home/jamie %runas disklabel -r /dev/sd0 # /dev/sd0: type: SCSI disk: sd0s1 label: flags: bytes/sector: 512 sectors/track: 1 tracks/cylinder: 1 sectors/cylinder: 1 cylinders: 1 sectors/unit: 8410200 rpm: 3600 interleave: 1 trackskew: 0 cylinderskew: 0 headswitch: 0 # milliseconds track-to-track seek: 0 # milliseconds drivedata: 0 8 partitions: # size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] a: 614400 0 4.2BSD 0 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 - 614399) c: 8410200 0 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 - 8410199) e: 7795800 614400 4.2BSD 0 0 0 # (Cyl. 614400 - 8410199) 3:18pm tyger /home/jamie % 3:18pm tyger /home/jamie %df -k Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/sd0a 201310 102002 83202 55% / /dev/sd0s1e 1512670 703310 688346 51% /usr /dev/sd1s1e 3278331 1327882 1688182 44% /var/news /dev/sd0s1f 2425870 1023984 1207816 46% /var/news/alt/binaries procfs 4 4 0 100% /proc 3:20pm tyger /home/jamie % The machine is running fine, but the label doesn't show the last slices correctly. I am wondering if I should be worried. Jamie I have my finger on the pulse of the planet.