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From: David =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sieb=F6rger?= <drs@rucus.ru.ac.za>
To: Peter Leftwich <Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com>
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Subject: Re: disklabel -W /dev/ad1 error
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On Fri 2002-09-13 (21:00), Peter Leftwich wrote:
> myprompt$ disklabel -W /dev/ad1
> disklabel: ioctl DIOCWLABEL: Operation not supported by device
> 
> After the above, these next commands won't work right.  Please help someone?
> 
> myprompt$ disklabel -R -r /dev/ad1 /tmp/disklabel.out
> myprompt$ disklabel -N /dev/ad1
> myprompt$ newfs_msdos /dev/ad1

That sequence of commands makes no sense.  If you want an MS-DOS
filesystem, you probably don't want it on a "dangerously dedicated"
disk, nor would you want a BSD disklabel.

Start from the beginning - what are you trying to do?


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David Siebörger
drs@rucus.ru.ac.za

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