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To: guido@gvr.win.tue.nl (Guido van Rooij)
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Subject: Re: disklabeling a vn device 
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Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 21:41:51 +0200
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From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.tfs.com>
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In message <199609301929.VAA11023@gvr.win.tue.nl>, Guido van Rooij writes:
>I am pretty I once managed to create an empty file, vnconfig it and
>then label amnd newfs it. I forgot how though and I'm stuk with a
>	disklabel: ioctl DIOCWDINFO: Inappropriate ioctl for device
>error. How is this doen?

Dig into src/release/Makefile for the final clue, I can't remember
but I know that works.

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