Hide all the historical fields of the label, unless people ask for them with -A,
set them to intelligently chosen defaults otherwise.
Distill the manual page to remove inaccuracies, misundertandings and obsolete
information. It can probably still be done better but now at least it is
not misinforming people.
recorded in global variables, rather than checks on the architecture.
Drop horribly code to handle MBR/PC98's embedded in the BSD label area.
If you need to have an MBR or PC98 on your disk, you should not overlap
it with a BSDLABEL, if you don't need it, this code is nothing but trouble.
for the alpha checksum, and set them depending on the specified architecture
Don't look for disklabels every 16 bytes, look the only place they should
be for the current architecture.
Always read the label from the raw disk and decode it into struct
disklabel rather than trust a cast from random addresses.
When writing to the raw disk, encode the label properly.
This is aimed at creating floppies during cross-releases.
For different endianness machines, a tool like bswapfs(8)
is necessary to make the generated floppies readable on
the target machine. While here, fixed unaligned access
on Alphas.
Tested on: i386, alpha
Notable changes:
- Removed the "disktype" argument from the -B only synopsis
form. This form doesn't touch the disk label, and doesn't
use this argument.
- Fixed the first example in the EXAMPLES section. Support
for compatibility slices has been recently dropped from
the GEOM kernels, and a bit later GEOM became standard.
- Removed the buggy notion from rev. 1.37 that disklabel(8)
may be used to define mount points; it cannot. Improve
some DOS partition / FreeBSD slice wording. Among these,
``dangerously-dedicated slice'' was just a nonsense. ;-)
creates a single file named just "boot".
Apart from the fact that the option "-s" is now gone and that "-b" should
be pointed at /boot/boot instead of /boot/boot1, this patch should be
a no-op.
for the disklabel: This facility is OBE.
First of all, we cannot sensibly implement this in a properly stacked
environment.
Second, if we did, it would confuse the heck out of users who
wouldn't be able to "start from scratch" by dd(8)'ing /dev/zero
onto /dev/da0.
Third, the offered protection is not comprehensive: no other software
would respect it.
Fourth and finally, the disklabel is already protected against
tampering if it controls open partitions.
Uselessness of these options discussed with: peter
other partitiosns. This is necessary when migrating conventional
partitions to Vinum and was broken by recent more stringent overlap
checks. This is arguably the wrong way to do it. A better method
would be to have the loader understand a subset of Vinum partitioning
and allow an install directly to Vinum, but until then, this is the
best we have.
Reviewed by: jhb
Approved by: re (rwatson)
take unsigned values.
his allows one to label disk with the number of blocks > 31 bits
(though less then 32 bits)
e.g.
# size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg]
c: 3125755904 0 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 - 194569*)
d: 3125755840 64 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 0*- 194569*)
which is needd to test UFS2
Peter had repocopied sys/disklabel.h to sys/diskpc98.h and sys/diskmbr.h.
These two new copies are still intact copies of disklabel.h and
therefore protected by #ifndef _SYS_DISKLABEL_H_ so #including them
in programs which already include <sys.disklabel.h> is currently a
no-op.
This commit adds a number of such #includes.
Once I have verified that I have fixed all the places which need fixing,
I will commit the updated versions of the three #include files.
Sponsored by: DARPA & NAI Labs.
that are used if none at all are specified for a partition. Don't
keep replaying the last field if we run out of fields when processing
a line. Use a 8:1 frag:block ratio for both defaults.
More work here is required. I think disklabel should not attempt
to choose default filesystem parameters, and instead let newfs pick
any defaults if required.
PR: i386/38703
Reported by: Martin Kraemer <Martin.Kraemer@Fujitsu-Siemens.com>
--change "-s newboot" to "-s newboot2" in an example
--Fixed spelling
--Fixed some confusion between slice/parition/primary partition and other
things.
PR: 35947 and 35951
Noticed by: Gary W. Swearingen <swear@blarg.net>
Reviewed by: keramida
Thanks to: grog
MFC after: 2 days
Pick up the c-partitions magicness from sys/disklabel.h instead
of defining our own magicness for it, remove trivial comment.
Sponsored by: DARPA and NAI Labs.
disklabel(8)'s "Reading the disk label" section starts out "To examine
or save the label on a disk drive,...". This is confusing. The given
command (disklabel [-r] disk) doesn't save anything (except to standard
out, but that should go without saying). It reads as if the command
might save something on the disk drive.
PR: 32452
Submitted by: Gary W. Swearingen <swear@blarg.net>
being:
# size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg]
a: 400M 0 4.2BSD 4096 16384 75 # (Cyl. 0 - 812*)
b: 1G * swap
c: * * unused
e: 204800 * 4.2BSD
f: 5g * 4.2BSD
g: * * 4.2BSD
These patches are the original work of Randell Jesup, and
I believe Matt Dillon, with additional work by Warner Losh.
Please let me know if I've left someone out.
Incorporated into this is the fix for PR bin/22727.
This patchset still has style issues and a possible problem on
large disks. However, it was a agreed to get these committed before
performing major surgery on them.
PR: bin/22727
Submitted by: Randell Jesup <rjesup@wgate.com>
Describe the command formats in English.
Add references to other programs (boot0cfg, fdisk).
Remove some old cruft, including FUD about single-level bootstraps.
Add example of output format.
Not-objected-to-by: msmith
rnordier
- nonstandard sector sizes didn't work because the sector size in the
ASCII label was not read before a (default, wrong) sector size was used.
- the exit status was 0 after exiting early due to an invalid ASCII label.
Abort `disklabel -B...' if the secondary bootstrap doesn't fit.
d_packname in in-core labels, so they are garbage if d_packname is
initialized in the dummy label for the whole disk. dsopen() will soon
initialize d_packname to "fictitious" if it is not already initialized.
Fixed nearby error handling. Rev.1.7 apparently confused Perror()
with perror().
This will make a number of things easier in the future, as well as (finally!)
avoiding the Id-smashing problem which has plagued developers for so long.
Boy, I'm glad we're not using sup anymore. This update would have been
insane otherwise.
disklabel(8) to the kernel (dsopen()). Drivers should initialize the
hardware values (rpm, interleave, skews). Drivers currently don't do
this, but it usually doesn't matter since rotational position stuff is
normally disabled.
required information from the driver, and produce a virgin disklabel
for it. The latter might be further edited with `disklabel -e' to
satisfy the user's need.
The magic sequence is:
disklabel -r -w sdX auto
disklabel -e sdX
the values that it doesn't print by defaults. This seems wrong. I want
to be able to see the total number of sectors more than edit it. The
default d_secperunit of (sectors/track * tracks/cylinder * cylinders) is
bogus if sectors/track is only an approximation and more bogus if
sectors/track and tracks/cylinder are dummy values such as 4096 and 1
to defeat ufs's pessimizations.
