Date: Sat, 3 Nov 2001 12:17:46 -0800 (PST) From: Wayne Lubin <wayneclubin@yahoo.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: disklabel question Message-ID: <20011103201746.8366.qmail@web14706.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <15332.13794.974173.634030@guru.mired.org>
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Tried it and got the following error messages ad1s2: Cannot find label(no disk label) disklabel: ioctl DIOCGDINFO: Invalid argument disklabel: auto: unknown disk type Does it seem as if maybe my disklabel program is broken? Wayne --- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> wrote: > Wayne Lubin <wayneclubin@yahoo.com> types: > > I made a slice ad1s2 (second slice on my second > drive) > > and I wanted to make some partitions on it, so I > used > > the disklabel utility program with the following > > command "disklabel -w ad1s2" and it gave me the > error > > message "Cannot find label" which does not make > sense > > because I thought that the purpose of disklabel > was to > > make the label. I also invoked disklabel with the > -e > > switch with the same result. Anyone know what is > going > > on here? Thanks. > > You've got to tell it what to write. Try "disklabel > -w -r ad1s2 auto". > > <mike > -- > Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> > http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ > Q: How do you make the gods laugh? A: Tell them > your plans. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Find a job, post your resume. http://careers.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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