From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 26 9:36: 5 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B541437B400 for ; Fri, 26 Jul 2002 09:36:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from clunix.cl.msu.edu (clunix.cl.msu.edu [35.9.2.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A97743E31 for ; Fri, 26 Jul 2002 09:36:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu) Received: (from jerrymc@localhost) by clunix.cl.msu.edu (8.11.6+Sun/8.11.6) id g6QGZv619465; Fri, 26 Jul 2002 12:35:57 -0400 (EDT) From: Jerry McAllister Message-Id: <200207261635.g6QGZv619465@clunix.cl.msu.edu> Subject: Re: restoring disklabel from an active disk? To: jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu (Jerry McAllister) Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2002 12:35:57 -0400 (EDT) Cc: paulbeard@mac.com (paul beard), jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu (Jerry McAllister), freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <200207252325.g6PNP4b16158@clunix.cl.msu.edu> from "Jerry McAllister" at Jul 25, 2002 07:25:03 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > > > > yup, I got the part about the incore label but too late: I wish > > there was some way to refresh it. It is "active" as far as df -k > > or the mechanism in the kernel that tracks filesystems knows. > Another Hmmm. Disklabel has a '-r' flag that says read the label on disk. Does that get you anything? If so, probably all you need to do is reboot. Also, try fdisk -s (if you have FreeBSd >= 4.xx). ////jerry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message