Date: Sat, 7 Oct 2000 14:56:33 -0700 (PDT) From: Jon Drukman <jsd@mail.gamespot.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: newfs extended partition Message-ID: <200010072156.OAA23870@mail.gamespot.com>
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I just reclaimed an old disk drive and for various reasons I want to just wipe out an MSDOS partition that lies in the extended partition. I can mount it fine, it shows up in FreeBSD as /dev/ad0s7. However, I can't newfs it. I get the following message, which I can't figure out: cluttered# newfs /dev/ad0s7 newfs: ioctl (GDINFO): Invalid argument newfs: /dev/ad0s7: can't read disk label; disk type must be specified I don't want to muck around with disklabel without knowing what I'm doing. I have backed up the data but I'd rather not disturb the other stuff in the extended partition if possible. -jsd- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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