I redid the whole thing. Now it works. I thing the problem was that I used
disklabel -E the first time, and that the BIOS geometry was bad
> Jon Sjvstedt wrote:
>> Hello all!
>>
>> I have an OpenBSD-box with two 250G drives inside (and some SCSI).
>> Trying
>> to use one of the drives as a whole gave this from disklabel
>>
>>
>> $ sudo disklabel -p g wd0
>> [snip]
>
> don't snip.
>
>> 16 partitions:
>> # size offset fstype [fsize bsize cpg]
>> c: 233.8G 0.0G unused 0 0 # Cyl
>> 0-486343
>> d: 233.8G 0.0G 4.2BSD 2048 16384 16 # Cyl
>> 0*-486343*
>>
>> but df -h says:
>>
>> /dev/wd0d 7.8G 7.4G 4.2M 100%
>>
>> and I cant create any new files on the drive. What could be the problem
>> here? Any hints appreciated.
>>
>> dmesg attached.
>
> thanks for the dmesg.
>
> You tried darned hard to obscure this (I really don't care how many G
> your disk is, I care about which sectors you are using), but it does
> appear that you opted to not properly partition your disk. The fact
> that you didn't show the output of fdisk causes me to believe you
> knew it, though you may not have recognized the significance. ;)
>
> Your OpenBSD subpartition appears to start at sector zero. Bad idea.
> This means, whether by design or by accident, you don't have an fdisk
> partition table (aka, MBR) on the disk. Also a bad idea.
>
> On some platforms, i386 is one of them, you must use fdisk partitions,
> and your disklabel partitions must start at a one track offset (in
> your case, probably 63 sectors).
>
> When you don't follow the rules, ugly things happen. It isn't the
> size of the disk, it's the way it's laid out that is giving you
> problems.
>
> See faq14.html...
>
> Nick.
>
>
>
> .
>
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