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From: Jon Drukman <jsd@mail.gamespot.com>
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Subject: newfs extended partition
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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-


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