From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 11 20: 6:15 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D1F637B400 for ; Wed, 11 Sep 2002 20:06:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from russian-caravan.cloud9.net (russian-caravan.cloud9.net [168.100.1.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D811843E42 for ; Wed, 11 Sep 2002 20:06:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com) Received: from earl-grey.cloud9.net (earl-grey.cloud9.net [168.100.1.1]) by russian-caravan.cloud9.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5025228DFD for ; Wed, 11 Sep 2002 23:06:12 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2002 23:06:12 -0400 (EDT) From: Peter Leftwich X-X-Sender: To: FreeBSD LIST Subject: disklabel error Message-ID: <20020911230336.E38605-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net> Organization: Video2Video Services - http://Www.Video2Video.Com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG myprompt$ disklabel -W /dev/ad1 disklabel: ioctl DIOCWLABEL: Operation not supported by device HELP! I am preparing to newfs_msdos one maybe two partitions on an 8.4gb HD. Is the above error a kernel error? Must I recompile the kernel? The command above is in preparation to do the following: myprompt$ disklabel /dev/ad1 > /tmp/disklabel.out myprompt$ [edit] /tmp/disklabel.out (At this point some guesswork and tweaks...) myprompt$ disklabel -R -r /dev/ad1 /tmp/disklabel.out myprompt$ disklabel -N /dev/ad1 myprompt$ newfs_msdos /dev/ad1 -- Peter Leftwich President & Founder Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA +1-413-403-9555 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message