Subject: Re: Is this a new disk problem?
To: Colin Wood <cwood@ichips.intel.com>
From: Henry B. Hotz <hotz@jpl.nasa.gov>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 07/09/1998 16:00:10
At 3:25 PM -0700 7/9/98, Colin Wood wrote:
>Henry B. Hotz wrote:
>> At 12:52 PM -0700 7/9/98, Dr. Bill Studenmund wrote:
>> >What does disklabel say for sd3?
>>
>> 6 partitions:
>> # size offset fstype [fsize bsize cpg]
>> a: 1226685 795 unknown # (Cyl. 1 -
>>1543)
>> b: 81885 1227480 unknown # (Cyl. 1544 -
>>1646)
>> c: 1309735 0 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 -
>>1647*)
>> d: 370 1309365 unknown # (Cyl. 1647 -
>>1647*)
>> e: 328 96 unknown # (Cyl. 0*- 0*)
>> f: 371 424 unknown # (Cyl. 0*- 0*)
>> disklabel: boot block size 0
>> disklabel: super block size 0
>
>You did say that this contains NetBSD partitions, right? I'd say
>something was definitely wrong with the formatting here....did you zap
>these with Mkfs?
I don't remember, but I suspect I used newfs under NetBSD. Would that
account for it? I thought the disklabel code only looks at the apple
partition map, not at the actual partition contents.
Anyway, yes, they are *BSD partitions, not hfs partitions.
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