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Date:      Fri, 13 Apr 2001 23:10:48 -0500
From:      Doug Poland <doug@polands.org>
To:        Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
Cc:        richard childers <fscked@pacbell.net>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: SCSI disks / disklabel / vinum -- SOLUTION
Message-ID:  <20010413231048.A15281@polands.org>
In-Reply-To: <20010306101228.A13082@wantadilla.lemis.com>
References:  <20010303150356.B29412@polands.org> <20010304091830.B12820@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20010305173531.A13041@polands.org> <20010306101228.A13082@wantadilla.lemis.com>

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This is mostly for the archives...

A while back I was having trouble using disklabel to edit
the labels on SCSI disks da4 and da5.  Disks da0-3 worked
fine as I changed the fstype from 4.2BSD to vinum in pre-
paration for building a vinum disk array.  Disks 4 & 5 
refused to take the label change and I kept getting an 
IOCTL error.  

As I was re-reading man (8) on disklabel, I saw you could
read a disklabel from a drive, save it to disk, then use
it in a disklabel write operation.  So this is what I did,

# disklabel da0s1 > da0s1.saved.label 
# vi da0s1.saved.label
// changed all references from da0 to da4 and saved as new file
# disklabel -R da4s1 da4s1.saved.label

Voila!  Did the same thing for da5, did a vinum create,
newfs, and mount and I'm in business.  

Thanks to Greg and Richard for helping.  Good OS folks,
my hat's off to you...

Doug

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