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Date: Fri, 10 Jan 1997 22:53:40 +1100
From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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To: j@uriah.heep.sax.de, kingram@ipro.com
Subject: Re: Adding Hard Drives - Prepping
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>> Where do I begin? Disklabel gets me:
>> 
>> #disklabel -r -w wd2 auto
>> disklabel: /dev/rwd2c: Undefined error: 0
>
>That should not happen. :)

This always happens if /dev/rwd2c (the whole of BSD compatibility slice)
is smaller than 8K.  read() returns a short count, and disklabel doesn't
understand this non-error.

Tiny slices should not be created except to debug problems like this.

Bruce