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To: Wayne Lubin <wayneclubin@yahoo.com>
Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Problem creating partitions in a slice.
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From: swear@blarg.net (Gary W. Swearingen)
Date: 03 Nov 2001 14:13:22 -0800
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Wayne Lubin <wayneclubin@yahoo.com> writes:

> I created the slice ad1s2 on my second disk which
> already has ad1s1, a freebsd slice on it. I wanted to
> create some partitions on my new slice so I gave the
> command
> 
> disklabel -e ad1 
> 
> and got the following error
> 
> ad1s2: cannot find label(no disklabel)
> disklabel: can't create /tmp/EdDk.qpo0t0vo15

The thing defaulted to the second slice which it seems that you've
never created a partition within so you can't edit a partition
disk label.  I don't know disklabel well enough to say what you
should do, but the man page or handbook should set you straight.

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