Date: Tue, 1 Oct 1996 18:26:45 +1000 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: bde@zeta.org.au, jkh@time.cdrom.com Cc: FreeBSD-hackers@FreeBSD.org, guido@gvr.win.tue.nl, phk@critter.tfs.com Subject: Re: disklabeling a vn device Message-ID: <199610010826.SAA19477@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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I wrote: >... >To avoid this problem, you have to create a valid BSD slice of the >correct size or the special invalid slice table that says that the >disk is "dedicated". Copies of the special table are kept in >bootstraps. The simplest way to put one on `vnfile' is: > > dd if=/usr/mdec/boot1 of=vnfile conv=notrunc > >It should also be possible to use `fdisk -i vnfile', but device >independence of fdisk is currently broken - it mungs the pathname. This is still too hard. It should be possible to just newfs /dev/rvn0. Device independence of newfs seems to have always been broken. Bruce
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