My apologies for delay in response, got swamped shortly after re-labeled
the disk. For those who forgot, had inherited an OSF1 system with several
disks, one of which seemed to function quite fine but generated an error
that disk unlabeled when ran disklabel to try to read the label.
Thanks to all who replied. Special kudos to Oisin McGuinness for
correctly diagnosing the problem as a disk imported from an Ultrix system,
thereby never having had a label. This was indicated by a warning on
startup to effect "Using Ultrix partition information".
Also special thanks to Alan Rollow for constructively correcting my sloppy
use of disklabel and partition table ( the disklabel being a small [one or
two sector] datastructure written to the beginning of the disk, which does
not have defaults. Part of the disklabel is the partition info which does
have defaults, and in this case was using the Ultrix partition table which
was written to the disk without the rest of the disklabel).
Anyhow, as only partition c was in use, labeling the disk with a standard
partition table giving everything to c did seem to work without needing
to backup and restore the filesystem. (Of course I wasn;t foolish enough
to omit the backing up step). Thanks for the advice.
Tom Payerle
Dept of Physics payerle_at_physics.umd.edu
University of Maryland (301) 405-6973
College Park, MD 20742-4111 Fax: (301) 314-9525
Received on Mon Sep 14 1998 - 22:56:02 NZST