From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 21 01:41:44 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA27092 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 21 May 1998 01:41:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from alpo.whistle.com (alpo.whistle.com [207.76.204.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA27027 for ; Thu, 21 May 1998 01:41:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from julian@whistle.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by alpo.whistle.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id BAA21490; Thu, 21 May 1998 01:40:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from current1.whistle.com(207.76.205.22) via SMTP by alpo.whistle.com, id smtpd021481; Thu May 21 08:40:02 1998 Date: Thu, 21 May 1998 01:39:58 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer To: Karl Pielorz cc: support@coolnet.net, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: disklabel help In-Reply-To: <35632FA5.BDA0D71A@tdx.co.uk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 20 May 1998, Karl Pielorz wrote: > Try, > > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/DISKDEVICE bs=1 count=1 non nononoonononononono! this won't help anything..... how was the disk originally set up? what happenned to it? > > (for DISKDEVICE e.g. use 'rsd0' for SCSI disk 0 etc.) > > Be carful - or you'll nuke a valid disk with data on it! - for more info see > Doug's 'Formatting Media for use with FreeBSD' guide at: > > http://www.freebsd.org/tutorials/diskformat/ > > Regards, > > Karl Pielorz > > support@coolnet.net wrote: > > > > is ther a way to reset the disklabeling if it has been removed or > > damaged? > > > > -- > > ============================================== > > Pat Cummings > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message