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From: Wayne Lubin <wayneclubin@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: disklabel question
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Tried it and got the following error messages

ad1s2: Cannot find label(no disk label)
disklabel: ioctl DIOCGDINFO: Invalid argument
disklabel: auto: unknown disk type

Does it seem as if maybe my disklabel program is
broken?

Wayne

--- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> wrote:
> Wayne Lubin <wayneclubin@yahoo.com> types:
> > I made a slice ad1s2 (second slice on my second
> drive)
> > and I wanted to make some partitions on it, so I
> used
> > the disklabel utility program with the following
> > command "disklabel -w ad1s2" and it gave me the
> error
> > message "Cannot find label" which does not make
> sense
> > because I thought that the purpose of disklabel
> was to
> > make the label. I also invoked disklabel with the
> -e
> > switch with the same result. Anyone know what is
> going
> > on here? Thanks.
> 
> You've got to tell it what to write. Try "disklabel
> -w -r ad1s2 auto".
> 
> 	<mike
> --
> Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>		
> http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/
> Q: How do you make the gods laugh?		A: Tell them
> your plans.


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