>Number:         676
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       disklabel core dumps when when converting to 4.2bsd or unused
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    bin-bug-people (Utility Bug People)
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Mon Jan  2 01:20:02 1995
>Originator:     David Muir Sharnoff
>Organization:
Idiom Consulting
>Release:        1.0
>Environment:

System: NetBSD again.idiom.com 1.0 NetBSD 1.0 (GENERICAHA) #3: Sun Oct 23 20:58:04 PDT 1994 cgd@sun-lamp.cs.berkeley.edu:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERICAHA i386

>Description:

	I wanted to convert a partition that was labeled 'swap' into
	a '4.2BSD' partition.  Using disklabel -e, whenver I made made
	the change, it core dumped.  It also dumps core if you try to
	change to type 'unused'.

	I eventually, found a workaround: if you fill in the 
	[fsize bsize  cpg] fields, it accepts your change.   Perhaps
	that's required.  I would tend to think that the fsize, bsize, and
	cpg, are all things that should be filled in by newfs, not
	disklabel.

	Perhaps this is just a another case where the diagnositc is
	a core dump, but I would tend to think that there are friendlier
	ways of letting you know you are mis-using the program (assuming
	that I was).

	For those that are curious, here's where it dumps:

		#0  word (cp=0x0) at disklabel.c:937
		#1  0x43fd in getasciilabel (f=0x10076f9c, lp=0xf7bfd9e8) at disklabel.c:1207
		#2  0x33aa in edit (lp=0xbd3c, f=3) at disklabel.c:861
		#3  0x1c5d in main (argc=1, argv=0xf7bfdc88) at disklabel.c:248

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