It worked! [Re: Where are wd0s1, wd0s2, wd0s3?]

[Manas Garg <mls@chakpak.net>]

Thanks Todd, it worked the way you suggested. Should the section 9.4 of OpenBSD
FAQ be changed to include these instructions? Because, what the FAQ suggests is
that one should just look at the output of disklabel and must not modify
anything using disklabel or fdisk.

Thanks Everybody.

	--manas

On Mon Aug 06, 2001 at 09:04:18AM -0600, Todd C. Miller wrote:
> 
> Now, WRT Linux partitions showing up in disklabel -- that doesn't
> necessarily happen automagically.  When a disk has no real BSD
> disklabel the kernel creates a fake one (so the disk can be used).
> 
> This fake label will include DOS and Linux partitions found in the
> fdisk table.  That means that any subsequent changes to DOS or Linux
> fdisk partitions will not be present in your label.  It also means
> that if you constructed a label by hand those partitions will not
> be present.  To see the default fake label you can run "disklabel -d wd0"
> (or whatever your disk is).  You can then run "disklabel -e" and
> paste any entries you want from the fake label into the real one.
> 
>  - todd