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Date:      Mon, 01 May 2000 14:14:20 -0700
From:      Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org>
To:        nm <nm@vt.edu>
Cc:        alpha@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: more disk trouble 
Message-ID:  <200005012114.OAA03836@mass.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 01 May 2000 15:31:26 EDT." <3.0.32.20000501153125.038d02e0@mail.vt.edu> 

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> At 12:14 PM 5/1/00 -0700, Mike Smith wrote:
> <snip>
> >> 
> >> bash-2.03# disklabel /dev/rda1c
> >> disklabel: ioctl DIOCGDINFO: Invalid argument
> <snip>
> >> 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:

The manpage is out of date.

> >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?

No.  It's too dangerous.

> Well I tried this and I get the same results as before :(

What did you try?  Exact commands and output; I can't read over your 
shoulder, and I'm too busy to hack into your box to do it myself.
-- 
\\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\  Mike Smith
\\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself,  \\  msmith@freebsd.org
\\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime.             \\  msmith@cdrom.com




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