Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2001 09:24:20 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> To: Ian Dowse <iedowse@maths.tcd.ie> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: disklabel broken again? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0107130924080.74809-100000@beppo> In-Reply-To: <200107131352.aa63156@salmon.maths.tcd.ie>
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On Fri, 13 Jul 2001, Ian Dowse wrote: > In message <Pine.BSF.4.21.0107122138260.61694-100000@beppo>, Matthew Jacob writ > es: > > > >Sometime in the last few days, disklabel -Brw auto seems to have stopped > >working for me on alpha.... It used to be the thing of: > > >Now I get: > > > >dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da5 bs=1024k count=10 > >... > >disklabel -Brw da5 auto > >disklabel: No space left on device > > I think this can happen when there is an existing label on the > disk, but I forget the exact conditions. Try dd'ing a few k of > zeros on to the disk and run the disklabel again? > No, that's the first line- that' what the dd is for... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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