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Subject: Re: alpha/61940: Can't disklabel new disk from FreeBSD/alpha
	5.2-RELEASE sysinstall
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The following reply was made to PR alpha/61940; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org>
To: "Matthew X. Economou" <xenophon+freebsd@irtnog.org>
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: alpha/61940: Can't disklabel new disk from FreeBSD/alpha 5.2-RELEASE sysinstall
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 10:24:35 -0800

 On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 05:31:57AM -0800, Matthew X. Economou wrote:
 > When presented with a disk that originally contained OpenVMS or Linux,
 > the disk label editor executed by sysinstall in FreeBSD/alpha
 > 5.2-RELEASE cannot reinitialize the disk with a FreeBSD disk label.
 > Instead, it reports an error about there being no free space on the
 > selected disk.
 
 1. Please properly wrap you lines, by hand if necessary. :-)
 2. Please email phk@freebsd.org and ask him what part of your disk he
    needs 'dd'ed and sent to him to determine if this is something GEOM
    isn't taking into account.