Date: Sat, 23 Mar 1996 11:42:08 -0800 From: Dave Hayes <dave@kachina.jetcafe.org> To: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Subject: Re: Adding a damn 2nd disk Message-ID: <199603231942.LAA12618@kachina.jetcafe.org>
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J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> writes:
>As Dave Hayes wrote:
>> >fdisk is far from being optimal -- but what exactly ``doesn't work
>> >reliably''?
>> I have found that I can Fdisk a disk, but subsequent disklabel will
>> refuse to write a label that the OS can read.
>How did you write it?
> disklabel -B -r -w sd1s1 foobar
>should work. For first-time initialization, the ``-r'' is mandatory.
The "-r" fails due to an "invalid device" error. NOT using "-r" seems
to work for the program's sake, but does nothing for the disk.
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>>> Dave Hayes - Altadena CA, USA - dave@jetcafe.org <<<
People who think they know all are often insufferable.
Rather like those who imagine that they know nothing.
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