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Date:      Wed, 12 Mar 1997 11:03:03 -0800 (PST)
From:      batie@aahz.jf.intel.com (Alan Batie)
To:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   disk docs
Message-ID:  <m0w4tIl-000hxmC@aahz.jf.intel.com>

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Do anyone know of any good disk layout docs?  Everytime I try to add a disk
to a FreeBSD system, it is an exercise in frustration, and seems to me like
it shouldn't be too hard to read the size of the disk and write a basic
initial partition table and disk label that will make disklabel happy, and
I'm willing to do it if I can find the information needed.  Currently, I've
tried "disklabel -r -w sd0 auto", and it complains
"write: Read-only file system".  *What* file system!?!  I *haven't* *gotten*
that far yet!  ktrace shows it to be /dev/rsd0c that it's complaining about
(the system disk is ide).

Thanks...

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