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To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
Subject: Re: Picobsd and disklabel of a SCSI disk [repost] 
Cc: Frank Volf <volf@oasis.IAEhv.nl>, freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 25 Jan 2001 09:30:25 PST."
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Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 11:50:31 -0700
From: Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org>
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In message <Pine.BSF.4.21.0101250929390.49243-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> Doug White writes:
: On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, Frank Volf wrote:
: 
: > # disklabel -w -B da0s1 auto
: > disklabel: ioctl DIOCGDINFO: Invalid argument
: > disklabel: auto: unknown disk type
: > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
: > This is where it fails.
: 
: 'auto' has always been a bit wonky.  See my disk formatting tutorial
: and/or the Handbook for an alternate method.

Or http://people.freebsd.org/~imp/diskprep

:-)

Post 4.2 we merged some changes for disklabel auto working on slices.
As it is disklabel auto only works on entire disks.

Warner


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