Re: disklabel panic

[George Robbins <grr_(_at_)_shandakor_(_dot_)_tharsis_(_dot_)_com>]

> From: Charlie Root <root%_(_dot_)__(_at_)_zephyr_(_dot_)_ccrc_(_dot_)_wustl_(_dot_)_edu>
> To: misc_(_at_)_openbsd_(_dot_)_org
> Subject: disklabel panic
> 
> could one of the reasons of the trouble i have with
> current kernels (they still panic with yesterday
> sources because of no disklabel found) be that
> disklabel constantly gives a wrong number of partitions?
> I have partitions a,b,c,d,e,f and h,i,j but it reports
> i have 10 partitions.

THe number of partitions reflects the highest partition number that's
defined, not the number that are active/in-use.  Of course it could
be that the actual label information for "g" is corrupt in some way
that disklabel(8) isn't showing you.  Generally, it's best to set
the number of paritions to the max (8/16) for whatever port you're
running, but I don't know that that's a problem here.

						George