From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 6 20:29:17 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sabre.velocet.net (sabre.velocet.net [198.96.118.66]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F34F3F6E for ; Sun, 6 Feb 2000 20:29:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from trooper.velocet.net (trooper.velocet.net [216.126.82.226]) by sabre.velocet.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 559BB137FBB; Sun, 6 Feb 2000 23:29:53 -0500 (EST) Received: (from dgilbert@localhost) by trooper.velocet.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id XAA32710; Sun, 6 Feb 2000 23:29:52 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from dgilbert) From: David Gilbert MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14494.19007.808453.68612@trooper.velocet.net> Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2000 23:29:51 -0500 (EST) To: cjclark@home.com Cc: David Gilbert , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: disklabel not supported? 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> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 20.4 "Emerald" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >>>>> "Crist" == Crist J Clark 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