Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2001 13:52:20 +0100 From: Ian Dowse <iedowse@maths.tcd.ie> To: mjacob@feral.com Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: disklabel broken again? Message-ID: <200107131352.aa63156@salmon.maths.tcd.ie> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 12 Jul 2001 21:40:35 PDT." <Pine.BSF.4.21.0107122138260.61694-100000@beppo>
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In message <Pine.BSF.4.21.0107122138260.61694-100000@beppo>, Matthew Jacob writ es: > >Sometime in the last few days, disklabel -Brw auto seems to have stopped >working for me on alpha.... It used to be the thing of: >Now I get: > >dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da5 bs=1024k count=10 >... >disklabel -Brw da5 auto >disklabel: No space left on device I think this can happen when there is an existing label on the disk, but I forget the exact conditions. Try dd'ing a few k of zeros on to the disk and run the disklabel again? Ian To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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