From owner-freebsd-alpha Sun Sep 27 14:24:11 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA18790 for freebsd-alpha-outgoing; Sun, 27 Sep 1998 14:24:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from duke.cs.duke.edu (duke.cs.duke.edu [152.3.140.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA18717 for ; Sun, 27 Sep 1998 14:23:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) Received: from grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (grasshopper.cs.duke.edu [152.3.145.30]) by duke.cs.duke.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA15922 for ; Sun, 27 Sep 1998 17:23:44 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from gallatin@localhost) by grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) id RAA09261; Sun, 27 Sep 1998 17:23:38 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) From: Andrew Gallatin MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1998 17:23:37 -0400 (EDT) To: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: it works!! In-Reply-To: <199809260624.AAA09773@panzer.plutotech.com> References: <199809260624.AAA09773@panzer.plutotech.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.43 under 20.4 "Emerald" XEmacs Lucid Message-ID: <13838.44018.700872.677229@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Kenneth D. Merry writes: > - Booted DEC Unix, and attempted to partition the thing. Silly me. No > matter what I tried, their disklabel(8) didn't want to disklabel the > damned disk. It didn't work even when I did something like this: > > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rrz20c bs=64k count=10 If anybody else needs to label a disk using DU, remember that their equiv of "auto" is a second identical device number. So you'd do something like this to put an initial label onto a disk at rz20: disklabel -wr rz20 rz20 The only time this will get you is when there's an entry in /etc/disktab which corresponds to the device you're labeling (the second device is supposed to be the disktab entry name; they really should use "auto"). You can just temporarily move /etc/distab out of the way in that case. Drew ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Andrew Gallatin, Sr Systems Programmer http://www.cs.duke.edu/~gallatin Duke University Email: gallatin@cs.duke.edu Department of Computer Science Phone: (919) 660-6590 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message