Date: Sun, 8 Oct 2000 12:40:57 -0400 (EDT) From: David Gilbert <dgilbert@velocet.ca> To: Jon Drukman <jsd@mail.gamespot.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: [FBSD-Q] newfs extended partition Message-ID: <14816.41881.861486.408231@trooper.velocet.net> In-Reply-To: <200010072156.OAA23870@mail.gamespot.com> References: <200010072156.OAA23870@mail.gamespot.com>
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>>>>> "Jon" == Jon Drukman <jsd@mail.gamespot.com> writes: Jon> I just reclaimed an old disk drive and for various reasons I want Jon> to just wipe out an MSDOS partition that lies in the extended Jon> partition. I can mount it fine, it shows up in FreeBSD as Jon> /dev/ad0s7. However, I can't newfs it. I get the following Jon> message, which I can't figure out: Jon> cluttered# newfs /dev/ad0s7 newfs: ioctl (GDINFO): Invalid Jon> argument newfs: /dev/ad0s7: can't read disk label; disk type must Jon> be specified Jon> I don't want to muck around with disklabel without knowing what Jon> I'm doing. I have backed up the data but I'd rather not disturb Jon> the other stuff in the extended partition if possible. If you don't disklabel it, I believe you have to use the -v option to newfs. Dave. -- ============================================================================ |David Gilbert, Velocet Communications. | Two things can only be | |Mail: dgilbert@velocet.net | equal if and only if they | |http://www.velocet.net/~dgilbert | are precisely opposite. | =========================================================GLO================ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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