From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 9 19:21:37 2004 Return-Path: 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 CAEC716A4CE for ; Fri, 9 Jul 2004 19:21:37 +0000 (GMT) Received: from ms-smtp-03-eri0.ohiordc.rr.com (ms-smtp-03-smtplb.ohiordc.rr.com [65.24.5.137]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0465D43D4C for ; Fri, 9 Jul 2004 19:21:37 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dmehler26@woh.rr.com) Received: from satellite (dhcp065-031-041-029.woh.rr.com [65.31.41.29]) i69JLYVd012316 for ; Fri, 9 Jul 2004 15:21:34 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <000501c465e8$98fa6020$0200a8c0@satellite> From: "dave" To: Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2004 15:11:54 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1409 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1409 X-Virus-Scanned: Symantec AntiVirus Scan Engine Subject: clearing a drive X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 09 Jul 2004 19:21:37 -0000 Hi, I've got a corrupted drive which i am unable now to clear. Whenever i try to fdisk it then relabel it i get an error that partition c does not cover the entire disk and that this might interfere with system utilities. I've tried: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ad1 bs=512 count=1 and various combinations thereof, without success. Normally running sysinstall will work, but in this case it is saying an error occurred writing partition information to drive ad1, and not allowing me to proceed. This is on a 5.2.1 box. Thanks. Dave.