Subject: Re: disk with Windows and FreeBSD parts - weird disklabel
To: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
From: Joel CARNAT <joel.carnat@noos.fr>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 03/27/2002 14:22:52
Yeeha :)

	it worked all right !
	the FreeBSD part kept all right !
	thX a lot manuel !

	for knowledge sharing, I did: `mbrlabel -rw wd0`

Cheers,
	Jo

On the last episode, Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 27, 2002 at 12:13:36AM +0100, Charlie Root wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 	first, I hope to be in the right list !
> > 	then, here's my problem:
> > 	I have a 40G hard drive with 4G of Windows (NTFS), 2G of Windows (FAT32) and the rest of FreeBSD (UFS).
> > 	I wanted to mount the three slices on my NetBSD... but when I disklabled it gave me:
> > ----------
> > > disklabel wd0
> > disklabel: old BSD partition ID!
> > # /dev/rwd0d:
> > type: ESDI
> > disk: ad0s3
> > label: 
> > flags:
> > bytes/sector: 512
> > sectors/track: 63
> > tracks/cylinder: 255
> > sectors/cylinder: 16065
> > cylinders: 4367
> > total sectors: 70155855
> > rpm: 3600
> > interleave: 1
> > trackskew: 0
> > cylinderskew: 0
> > headswitch: 0           # microseconds
> > track-to-track seek: 0  # microseconds
> > drivedata: 0 
> > 
> > 8 partitions:
> > #        size   offset     fstype   [fsize bsize cpg/sgs]
> >   c: 70155855 10249470     unused        0     0         # (Cyl.  638 - 5004)
> >   e: 70155855 10249470     4.2BSD     2048 16384    89   # (Cyl.  638 - 5004)
> > disklabel: partition c: partition extends past end of unit
> > disklabel: partition e: partition extends past end of unit
> > 
> > ----------
> > 	
> > 	I thought I would only have to add the 'a' and 'b' definitions by hand (as written in the doc) BUT ... the definition for c is the same then the e one...
> > 	I'm afraid of modifying the c part to something like
> >   c: 80405295       63     unused        0     0
> > 	Then add the 'a' and 'b' part for the windows part...
> > 
> > 	Would the c slice modification be safe ???
> > 	If not, how do I do ? :)
> 
> Try the mbrlabel program. Read the man page carefully or you may
> trash your FreeBSD partition.
> 
> -- 
> Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
> --
>