Subject: disklabel / labeledit
To: None <port-vax@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Bertram Barth <bertram@ifib.uni-karlsruhe.de>
List: port-vax
Date: 07/27/1995 10:26:48
I don't know if other people are using labeledit to change the label
in miniroot.fs/microroot.fs according to the intended layout of the
disk they are about to install to. At least for me it's the preferred
way of putting a initial label to disk which already holds the correct
parameters/sizes/offsets for this disk.
Just in case anybody can't use labeledit but would like to, you can send
mail to bertram@gummo.bbb.sub.org
-or- bertram@ifib.uni-karlsruhe.de
holding the protofile for the label you'd like to use and I'll generate
bootblocks holding the label (8K) and send them back as uuencoded mail
(this might take a few days). Then replace the first 8K of mi*root.fs
with the new bootblocks/label and use racopy to install bootblocks/label
onto disk.
Ciao,
bertram
PS: I've appended the protofile which I'm using for my RD53 and which
is also used in new miniroot.fs/microroot.fs, so you can modify this.
Protofiles should hold at least 'a' and 'b' partitions ...
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# /dev/rra1c:
type: MSCP
disk: rd53
label:
flags:
bytes/sector: 512
sectors/track: 18
tracks/cylinder: 8
sectors/cylinder: 144
cylinders: 963
rpm: 3600
interleave: 1
trackskew: 0
cylinderskew: 0
headswitch: 0 # milliseconds
track-to-track seek: 0 # milliseconds
drivedata: 0
7 partitions:
# size offset fstype [fsize bsize cpg]
a: 20160 0 4.2BSD 1024 8192 16 # (Cyl. 0 - 139)
b: 15840 20160 swap # (Cyl. 140 - 249)
c: 138672 0 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 - 962)
e: 102672 36000 4.2BSD 512 4096 16 # (Cyl. 250 - 962)
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