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Subject: Re: disklabel broken again? 
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Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2001 13:53:25 +0100
From: Ian Dowse <iedowse@maths.tcd.ie>
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In message <200107131352.aa63156@salmon.maths.tcd.ie>, Ian Dowse writes:
>In message <Pine.BSF.4.21.0107122138260.61694-100000@beppo>, Matthew Jacob wri
>t
>es:
>>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?

Whoops, I'm not awake. Ignore that! :-)

Ian

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