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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!platinum.sge.net!como.dpie.gov.au!news.gan.net.au!act.news.telstra.net!vic.news.telstra.net!news.mira.net.au!news.netspace.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.syd.connect.com.au!phaedrus.kralizec.net.au!godzilla.zeta.org.au!not-for-mail From: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Cannot correct disklabel Date: 29 Jun 1997 23:17:44 +1000 Organization: Kralizec Internet Lines: 31 Message-ID: <5p5n9o$20f$1@godzilla.zeta.org.au> References: <33B368E4.41C67EA6@rockhead.com> <5p1bvb$rd6@uriah.heep.sax.de> <33B59A05.15FB7483@rockhead.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: godzilla.zeta.org.au Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:43703 In article <33B59A05.15FB7483@rockhead.com>, Paul Newhouse <newhouse~spam@rockhead.com> wrote: >J Wunsch wrote: > >> Paul Newhouse <newhouse~spam@rockhead.com> wrote: >You mean, like, this number "6185088", from the log files: > > Jun 24 17:17:38 wanker /kernel: wdc0: unit 0 (wd0): <WDC AC33100H> > Jun 24 17:17:38 wanker /kernel: wd0: 3020MB (6185088 sectors), 6136 > cyls, 16 heads, 63 S/T, 512 B/S > >> > Anybody have any clues as to how to get the disklabel on the disk set to >> > the correct values? >> >> Trash it. > >It's already trashed. I was looking for some pointers on how to fix it. >"disklabel" doesn't seem up to the task. I was trying to get : > > c: 8495072 0 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 - >8427*) 8495072 is probably from an incorrect entry in the slice (DOS partition) table. The driver sets sectors/unit to the size of the slice and reduces the size of the C partition to the size of the slice. All adjustments to the sizes are logged. It is difficult to reduce the size of the C partition using disklabel, since the label ioctls don't allow reducing the size of an open partition. You have to fix the slice table. -- Bruce Evans bde@zeta.org.au