Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2000 23:29:51 -0500 (EST) From: David Gilbert <dgilbert@velocet.ca> To: cjclark@home.com Cc: David Gilbert <dgilbert@velocet.ca>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: disklabel not supported? Message-ID: <14494.19007.808453.68612@trooper.velocet.net> In-Reply-To: <20000206221950.D18352@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> References: <14493.59284.673956.169481@trooper.velocet.net> <20000206221950.D18352@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>
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>>>>> "Crist" == Crist J Clark <cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> writes: Crist> On Sun, Feb 06, 2000 at 04:28:52PM -0500, David Gilbert wrote: >> To make a long story short, I nuked my disklabel... and I have >> reconstructed what it should be... now... I'm sitting at the >> "fixit#" prompt in the fixit floppy... and when I: >> >> Fixit# disklabel -R wd0 /mnt2/wd0.label disklabel: Operation not >> supported by device Fixit# disklabel -R -r wd0 /mnt2/wd0.label >> disklabel: ioctl DIOCWLABEL: Operation not supported by device >> >> ... now I would search the archives for this... but that's not >> available at the momment. Crist> I'm not precisely sure if this is it, but is wd0 really what Crist> you want to label? Or is it wd0s1 or wd0s2? Well... I tried that hunch. I get the same messages. The man page for disklabel says that wd0 is used as an alias for /dev/rwd0c ... and wd0c is translated by the device to wd0s1c (so says the wd man page). I tried wd0s1 wnd /dev/rwds1c for good measure, but get the same message. Dave. -- ============================================================================ |David Gilbert, Velocet Communications. | Two things can only be | |Mail: dgilbert@velocet.net | equal if and only if they | |http://www.velocet.net/~dgilbert | are precisely opposite. | =========================================================GLO================ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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