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From: "Duane H. Hesser" <dhh@androcles.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Disk crash problem...any ideas of what is going wrong?
Date: Fri, 13 Dec 1996 22:03:36 -0800
Organization: Northwest Nexus Inc.
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Michael White wrote:
> 
> Brian Somers wrote:
> >
> > In article <32AF6751.41C6@ucdavis.edu>,
> >         Michael White <mdwhite@ucdavis.edu> writes:
> > [.....]
> > : My filesystems (which are okay) are:
> > :
> > : Filesystem    512-blocks    used   avail   cap.
> > : /dev/wd1a         38974    31806    4052    89%   /
> > : /dev/wd1s1e      793790   265758  464530    36%   /usr
> > : procfs                8        8       0   100%   /proc
> > [.....]
> >
> > What about "disklabel wd1s1" - what does that say.  This sounds a
> > bit like overlapping partitions.
> >
> > --
> > Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>, <brian@freebsd.org>
> >       <http://www.awfulhak.demon.co.uk/>
> > Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....
> > .
> That looks suspicious:  here it is:
> =======================================================================
> #disklabel wd1s1
> 
> type: EDSI
> disk: wd1s1
> label:
> flags:
> bytes/sector: 512
> sectors/track: 63
> tracks/cylinder: 16
> sectors/cylinder: 1008
> cylinders: 2099
> sectors/uint: 2116737
> rpm: 3600
> interleave: 1
> trackskew: 0
> cylinderskew: 0
> headswitch: 0           # milliseconds
> track-to-track seek: 0  # milliseconds
> drivedata: 0
> 
> 8 partitions
> #       size    offset  fstype  [fsize  bsize  bps/cpg]
>   a:  40960        0    4.2BSD      0      0     0  #(cyl. 0-40*)
>   b: 131072    40960    4.2BSD                      #(cyl. 40*-170*)
>   c:2116737        0    unused      0      0        #(cyl. 0-2099*)
>   e: 819200   172032    4.2BSD      0      0     0  #(cyl. 170*-983*)
>   f:1125505   991232    4.2BSD      0      0     0  #(cyl. 983*-2099*)
> ======================================================================
> 
> Now, I only set up 4 partitions (/, swap, /usr, /u) which look to
> correspond to a,b,e & f above.  Where on earth c came from is beyond
> me.  Any ideas of what is happening (& why & how to fix)?  Thanks
> for the time.
> --
> - Mike
>   mdwhite@ucdavis.edu
'c' is, by convention, the whole disk.  not a problem.  


-- 
Duane H. Hesser
dhh@androcles.com