From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 24 12:25:16 2004 Return-Path: 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 9846616A4CF for ; Mon, 24 May 2004 12:25:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from clunix.cl.msu.edu (clunix.cl.msu.edu [35.9.2.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D9BE43D2D for ; Mon, 24 May 2004 12:25:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu) Received: (from jerrymc@localhost) by clunix.cl.msu.edu (8.11.7p1+Sun/8.11.7) id i4OJP4l19680; Mon, 24 May 2004 15:25:04 -0400 (EDT) From: Jerry McAllister Message-Id: <200405241925.i4OJP4l19680@clunix.cl.msu.edu> To: wmoran@potentialtech.com (Bill Moran) Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 15:24:33 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <40B23B9F.1080908@potentialtech.com> from "Bill Moran" at May 24, 2004 02:14:55 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: jason-dusek@uiowa.edu cc: "Questions@BSD" Subject: Re: Broken Disk X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 19:25:16 -0000 > > Jason Dusek wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Through a combination of this list's suggestions, I managed to get fdisk > > to successfully operate on my disk. Thanks. However, the step about > > 'editing my label' as given in the handbook: > > > > # disklabel -e da1s1 # Edit the disklabel just created. > > > > is not something I really understand. Where is some nice documentation > > on this? > > "man disklabel" is pretty comprehensive. Yes. But, you have to read it together with man fdisk to make any sense of it and even then the writing is rather convoluted and confusing. They could both use a complete systematic rewrite. I don't think I know enough of the extra stuff (the stuff I don't usually use) to do it or I would try it. So, anyway, user questions should not be surprising. (But please ask reasonably specific questions or it is hard to give a relevant answer) ////jerry > > -- > Bill Moran > Potential Technologies > http://www.potentialtech.com > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >