Date: Mon, 01 May 2000 15:31:26 -0400 From: nm <nm@vt.edu> To: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: more disk trouble Message-ID: <3.0.32.20000501153125.038d02e0@mail.vt.edu>
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At 12:14 PM 5/1/00 -0700, Mike Smith wrote:
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>>
>> bash-2.03# disklabel /dev/rda1c
>> disklabel: ioctl DIOCGDINFO: Invalid argument
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>> What am I doing wrong?
>
>You don't apply disklabel to a partition, you apply it to a device or
>slice. Use the canonical name to avoid embarrassment, eg:
right.
>disklabel -e da1
Doesn't disklabel translates da1 to /dev/rda1c? The man page seems
to indiate that it does:
Disk device name
All disklabel forms require a disk device name, which should always be
the raw "complete" (or "c") partition, for example /dev/rda0c. disklabel
understands the abbreviation da0, which it converts internally to
/dev/rda0c.
>In your case, there is already a label on the disk, and disklabel is very
>protective of existing labels (for good reason). You need to cheat and
>zero it out first:
>
>dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da1 count=16
I was looking for an option to do this from disklabel but I didn't
see one. Wouldn't this be a nice feature to have on FreeBSD?
Well I tried this and I get the same results as before :(
Nick Maniscalco
BTW: Thanks for the speedy reply!
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