From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Sep 30 14:52:01 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id OAA11703 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 30 Sep 1996 14:52:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA11608 for ; Mon, 30 Sep 1996 14:51:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id XAA03480; Mon, 30 Sep 1996 23:51:07 +0200 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id XAA00891; Mon, 30 Sep 1996 23:51:06 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.5/8.6.9) id XAA13545; Mon, 30 Sep 1996 23:39:49 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199609302139.XAA13545@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: disklabeling a vn device To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 23:39:48 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: guido@gvr.win.tue.nl (Guido van Rooij) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199609301947.VAA11121@gvr.win.tue.nl> from Guido van Rooij at "Sep 30, 96 09:47:31 pm" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Guido van Rooij wrote: > > > disklabel: ioctl DIOCWDINFO: Inappropriate ioctl for device > > >error. How is this doen? > I just foud out how it can be done: > newfs /dev/rvn0c > > This is undocumented in the newfs manpage though...If I have time > I'll fix it. The semi-documented way is to use vnconfig -s labels -c /dev/rvn0 /your/image -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)