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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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To: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>
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Subject: Re: fatal flaw in diskcheckd...
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On Wed, 18 Jul 2001, Matthew Jacob wrote:

> So, I took a SCSi disk away. Diskcheckd started complaining. However,
> a camcontrol rescan couldn't make the disk go away until I killed off
> diskcheckd, which then closed the disk, allowing the rescan to remove it.
> Bad. Bad. Bad.

This may also have caused your disklabel problems.  The old label doesn't
go away until all minors on the device are closed, at least when you clobber
the label using the dd hack.

Bruce


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