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From: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
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Subject: Re: Does fdisk work?
To: rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com (Rodney W. Grimes)
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> > Does fdisk work for others?  I have not been able to get it to
> > write anything on the disk.  I run it with the -i flag and answer
> > all the questions in the affirmative, yet upon running it again
> > (or disklabel) the disk still has no valid partion table (at least
> > not what I specified).  This on both a 2.0.5R and a 950726-SNAP
> > level system.
> > 
> > All I can figure is that either fdisk is terminally broken or I am
> > missing something very fundamental about its use.  :-((
> 
> fdisk -u, the -u option is required if you wish to write to the
> disk, -i write a master boot record, but no partition table.

as pointed out by someone else, fdisk should be run on /dev/rwd0,
not on /dev/rwd0d as it is by default and used to work before.
That's the trick.

	Luigi
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