From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Mar 23 11:42:42 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id LAA06345 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 23 Mar 1996 11:42:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from kachina.jetcafe.org (kachina.jetcafe.org [206.117.70.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA06340 for ; Sat, 23 Mar 1996 11:42:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from [127.0.0.1] ([127.0.0.1]) by kachina.jetcafe.org (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id LAA12618; Sat, 23 Mar 1996 11:42:21 -0800 Message-Id: <199603231942.LAA12618@kachina.jetcafe.org> To: J Wunsch cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Subject: Re: Adding a damn 2nd disk Date: Sat, 23 Mar 1996 11:42:08 -0800 From: Dave Hayes Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk J Wunsch 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. ------ >>> 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.