I'm resending this, the .'s I had put in to separate my disk partitions
must have confused a sendmail somewhere ...

>G'day again,
>
>I've managed to get a miniroot up, and am trying to repartition my
>disk to get enough space for everything (my old 4MB root partition
>is just _too_ small :) )
>
>Is there some doco on how to use edlabel, in particular, what does a "*"
>mean beside a parameter, and how can I get rid of the error :
>ioctl DIOCWDINFO: Invalid argument?
>
>Does that mean that I've got the partitions overlapping?
>
>What I'm trying to do :
>
>I've got a Fuji M2614ESA, edlabel reports :
>type_num: 4
>sub_type: 0
>type_name: SCSI disk
>pack_name: Fujitsu M2614ESA
>bytes/sector: 512
>sectors/track: 34
>tracks/cylinder: 8
>cylinders: 1307
>sectors/cyinder: 272
>
>I want to build a 16M root partition, 20M swap, and the rest as /usr,
>so I tried this :
>
>a (root)        0       0/00/00         32000   117/05/06       4.2BSD
>b (swap)        32001   117/05/07       72000   264/05/22       swap
>c (disk)        0       0/00/00         355503  1306/07/33      unknown
>.
>.
>.
>.
>g (user)        72001   264/05/23       355503  136/07/33       4.2BSD
>
>but when I try and write that label I see :
>
>ioctl DIOCWDINFO: Invalid argument
>
>I've netbooted the machine and it seems to be ok (I get the ssh prompt
>and edlabel seems to start fine).
>
>any idea what I'm doing wrong?
>
>Thanks again
>
>Carl
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