From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Apr 11 15: 9:14 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from gatekeeper.orem.verio.net (gatekeeper.orem.verio.net [192.41.0.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8EEBA37B422 for ; Wed, 11 Apr 2001 15:09:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fclift@verio.net) Received: from mx.dmz.orem.verio.net (mx.dmz.orem.verio.net [10.1.1.10]) by gatekeeper.orem.verio.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id C0FD53BF174 for ; Wed, 11 Apr 2001 16:09:11 -0600 (MDT) Received: from vespa.dmz.orem.verio.net (vespa.dmz.orem.verio.net [10.1.1.59]) by mx.dmz.orem.verio.net (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f3BM91n10056; Wed, 11 Apr 2001 16:09:02 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from fclift@verio.net) Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 16:39:04 -0600 (MDT) From: Fred Clift X-Sender: fred@vespa.dmz.orem.verio.net To: dannyman Cc: Doug White , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: creating an fdisk partition in an automated way In-Reply-To: <20010406181255.H59108@dell.dannyland.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 6 Apr 2001, dannyman wrote: > On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 08:58:12PM -0700, Doug White wrote: > > fdisk -I is your friend. (DANGER: THIS IS DESTRUCTIVE -- READ THE MAN ... > Yeah ... I use it. It seems to do the right thing. Then disklabel doesn't > work. :< ... > disklabel -r -w $disk auto > > Disklabel pukes. I've found a similar case at: > http://groups.google.com/groups?q=%22cannot+find+label%22+%22no+disk+label%22+fdisk&hl=en&lr=&safe=off&rnum=1&seld=972266336&ic=1 Disklabel XXXX auto only works on 'raw' disks. I mean, it wasn't written to work on partitions er slices. This wouldn't be a bug, but more a feature enhancement. I'm sure it could be implemented. Let us all know when you get it fixed :). Fred -- Fred Clift - fclift@verio.net -- Remember: If brute force doesn't work, you're just not using enough. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message