Hi,
I noted a strange behavior of disklabel(8) and newfs(8) that I cannot explain to myself:
Not having edited the label, the fstype is of course unused. Now placing a filesystem on the partition does not change the situation:
And this is the strange part: newfs(8) is not updating the label and the label is reporting still an unused filesystem. And here comes my doubt: what is then the purpose of the label apart the offset and size? I was assuming that only the fsize, bsize, bps/cpg were optional and intended as suggestion to newfs(8).
I noted a strange behavior of disklabel(8) and newfs(8) that I cannot explain to myself:
Code:
# disklabel -w ada2
# disklabel ada2
# /dev/ada2:
8 partitions:
# size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg]
a: 4194288 16 unused 0 0
c: 4194304 0 unused 0 0 # "raw" part, don't editNot having edited the label, the fstype is of course unused. Now placing a filesystem on the partition does not change the situation:
Code:
# newfs ada2a
/dev/ada2a: 2048.0MB (4194288 sectors) block size 32768, fragment size 4096
using 4 cylinder groups of 512.00MB, 16384 blks, 65536 inodes.
super-block backups (for fsck_ffs -b #) at:
192, 1048768, 2097344, 3145920
# disklabel ada2
# /dev/ada2:
8 partitions:
# size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg]
a: 4194288 16 unused 0 0
c: 4194304 0 unused 0 0 # "raw" part, don't editAnd this is the strange part: newfs(8) is not updating the label and the label is reporting still an unused filesystem. And here comes my doubt: what is then the purpose of the label apart the offset and size? I was assuming that only the fsize, bsize, bps/cpg were optional and intended as suggestion to newfs(8).