From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 8 9:41: 8 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sabre.velocet.net (sabre.velocet.net [198.96.118.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DCAB537B502 for ; Sun, 8 Oct 2000 09:41:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from office.tor.velocet.net (trooper204.velocet.net [204.138.45.2]) by sabre.velocet.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38E9B138067; Sun, 8 Oct 2000 12:41:03 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from dgilbert@localhost) by office.tor.velocet.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id MAA29652; Sun, 8 Oct 2000 12:40:57 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from dgilbert) From: David Gilbert MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14816.41881.861486.408231@trooper.velocet.net> Date: Sun, 8 Oct 2000 12:40:57 -0400 (EDT) To: Jon Drukman Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: [FBSD-Q] newfs extended partition In-Reply-To: <200010072156.OAA23870@mail.gamespot.com> References: <200010072156.OAA23870@mail.gamespot.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 20.4 "Emerald" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >>>>> "Jon" == Jon Drukman writes: Jon> I just reclaimed an old disk drive and for various reasons I want Jon> to just wipe out an MSDOS partition that lies in the extended Jon> partition. I can mount it fine, it shows up in FreeBSD as Jon> /dev/ad0s7. However, I can't newfs it. I get the following Jon> message, which I can't figure out: Jon> cluttered# newfs /dev/ad0s7 newfs: ioctl (GDINFO): Invalid Jon> argument newfs: /dev/ad0s7: can't read disk label; disk type must Jon> be specified Jon> I don't want to muck around with disklabel without knowing what Jon> I'm doing. I have backed up the data but I'd rather not disturb Jon> the other stuff in the extended partition if possible. If you don't disklabel it, I believe you have to use the -v option to newfs. Dave. -- ============================================================================ |David Gilbert, Velocet Communications. | Two things can only be | |Mail: dgilbert@velocet.net | equal if and only if they | |http://www.velocet.net/~dgilbert | are precisely opposite. | =========================================================GLO================ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message