Date: Sat, 14 Sep 2002 09:52:52 +0200 From: David =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sieb=F6rger?= <drs@rucus.ru.ac.za> To: Peter Leftwich <Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: disklabel -W /dev/ad1 error Message-ID: <20020914075252.GA285@rucus.ru.ac.za> In-Reply-To: <20020913205904.K33339-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net> References: <20020913205904.K33339-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net>
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On Fri 2002-09-13 (21:00), Peter Leftwich wrote: > myprompt$ disklabel -W /dev/ad1 > disklabel: ioctl DIOCWLABEL: Operation not supported by device > > After the above, these next commands won't work right. Please help someone? > > myprompt$ disklabel -R -r /dev/ad1 /tmp/disklabel.out > myprompt$ disklabel -N /dev/ad1 > myprompt$ newfs_msdos /dev/ad1 That sequence of commands makes no sense. If you want an MS-DOS filesystem, you probably don't want it on a "dangerously dedicated" disk, nor would you want a BSD disklabel. Start from the beginning - what are you trying to do? -- David Siebörger drs@rucus.ru.ac.za To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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