From owner-freebsd-current Fri Jul 13 9:24:30 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from beppo.feral.com (beppo.feral.com [192.67.166.79]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3366437B403 for ; Fri, 13 Jul 2001 09:24:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mjacob@feral.com) Received: from beppo (mjacob@beppo [192.67.166.79]) by beppo.feral.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f6DGOKS74945; Fri, 13 Jul 2001 09:24:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mjacob@feral.com) Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2001 09:24:20 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Jacob X-Sender: mjacob@beppo Reply-To: mjacob@feral.com To: Ian Dowse Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: disklabel broken again? In-Reply-To: <200107131352.aa63156@salmon.maths.tcd.ie> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 13 Jul 2001, Ian Dowse wrote: > In message , 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? > No, that's the first line- that' what the dd is for... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message