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Date:      Thu, 27 Jan 2005 06:36:41 +0100
From:      Matthias Buelow <mkb@incubus.de>
To:        Pete Yandell <pete@yandell.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: No disklabel, but it still boots
Message-ID:  <41F87DE9.6010009@incubus.de>
In-Reply-To: <3a201e75209a5c782ac12e443b6e7bbd@yandell.com>
References:  <3a201e75209a5c782ac12e443b6e7bbd@yandell.com>

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Pete Yandell wrote:

> $ disklabel -r ad6                                                  ~
> disklabel: bad pack magic number (label is damaged, or pack is unlabeled)

The disklabel is on ad6s1, not on ad6.  The kernel does automatically 
generate "fictitious" labels for unlabeled disks, no matter if it's 
being used for BSD, or not.

mkb.



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