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#! rnews 1789 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!solace!news.stealth.net!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!cs.utexas.edu!atlantis.utmb.edu!news From: "Ernest Hymel" <ehymel@utmb.edu> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.misc Subject: URGENT HELP! Can no longer mount disk! Date: 4 Nov 1996 17:03:08 GMT Organization: University of Texas Medical Branch Lines: 31 Message-ID: <01bbca71$ffa0e3f0$27366d81@masscomp> NNTP-Posting-Host: masscomp.utmb.edu X-Newsreader: Microsoft Internet News 4.70.1155 HELP! What could cause disklabel -r to correctly see the disk geometry, but when I try to boot to the same disk, or mount that disk from another FreeBSD disk, I get all kinds of messages like: sd1: raw partition size != slice size sd1: start 0, end 49999, size 50000 sd1c: start 0, end 430835, size 4308352 sd1: truncating raw partition sd1: rejecting partition in BSD label: it isn't entirely in the slice sd1: start 0, end 49999, size 50000 sd1a: start 0, end 65535, size 65536 etc. for my remaining partitions sd1b (swap), sd1c (entire disk), etc. FreeBSD occupies the entire disk. What's strange in the above message is the second line: there is no partition definded by disklabel of size 50000. So for some reason the kernel copy of the disklabel is not matching the disk copy of the disklabel. How could this be?? Please tell me how to correct this error *without* losing the information on that disk! I have backups of the critical data, but rebuilding the entire disk will be a logistical nightmare! This problem has come on suddenly, where I've been booting/mounting this disk for several weeks now. Please email if you post. Thank you thank you thank you if you can help. I'm deparate! -- Ernest Hymel ehymel@utmb.edu