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- From: chmr@fstgds01.tu-graz.ac.at (Christoph Robitschko)
- Subject: Re: [386BSD] Disklabel help and large drives (1.7 gig)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec11.180246.17228@news.tu-graz.ac.at>
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- Organization: Technical University of Graz, Austria
- References: <1992Dec10.171917.20431@decuac.dec.com>
- Date: Fri, 11 Dec 92 18:02:46 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec10.171917.20431@decuac.dec.com> darryl@sai.com writes:
- >
- >I know this is a FAQ which I have read, but I can't seem to partition
- >my disk to anything but the default. What am I doing wrong? Do
- >I need a disktab entrie to match my disk, before disklabel will work?
- >Does the partition relate to fdisk format?
- >
- I had this problem, too. The error message was something like 'partition
- c extends past end of drive'. I simply gave disklabel a bigger number
- of cilynders than is actually on drive, that cured the problem.
- I think disklabel verifies that nsectors*ntracks*ncylinders >= nblocks,
- which is wrong for some drives.
- No, you don't need a disktab entry.
- No, the disklabel has nothing to do with fdisk.
- >
- >Also does 386BSD have any problem supporting drives larger than 1 gig?
- >
- It seems so. I tried yesterday to hook up a 2 Gig disk and make a
- filesystem on a 1.9 Gig partition. When I then mounted the partition
- and copied some files over (dump | restore), it destroyed the file
- system (root directory inode was mangled). The other partition was not
- affected, so I guess there was some wraparound inside the partition.
- This was with the Seagate ST01 SCSI driver.
-
- Christoph
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