On Sun, 28 Jan 2007, Patrick Useldinger wrote:
> Otto Moerbeek wrote:
>
> > > I read through the mailing list archives and found a thread explaining
> > > that
> > > the disklabel is stored around the beginning of partition 'a' and that one
> > > should allocate a small partition 'a' which should not be made part of the
> > > JBOD.
> >
> > I think you misread. It's enough to make sure the a partitions starts
> > after the first track. Just run fdisk -i on a new (ccd) disk. It
> > takes care of that.
>
> I am talking about the physical disk, not the ccd disk.
>
> In this case, the physical disk is wd1, which has been initialized by fdisk
> -i. I then created wd1a and wd1b. wd1's disklabel gets put into the beginning
> of wd1a if I understood correctly. Because when I create ccd0 with wd1a and
> wd1b as members, ccd0 has the same disklabel as wd1.
>
> > > What I am uncomfortable with is that
> > >
> > > 1) this does not appear to be documented in the man pages anywhere
> >
> > http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq14.html#disklabel
> >
> > True, the FAQ is not 'offcial documentation'....
>
> To me it is. But the information isn't there. What comes close is disklabel(5)
> which states:
>
> "The label is located in sector number LABELSECTOR of the drive, usually
> sector 0 where it may be found without any information about the disk ge
> ometry. "
>
> "Usually sector 0" is a little vague.
>
> Still confused,
How are we supposed to help if you omit all relevant info? dmesg,
disklabels, fdisk info...
-Otto
