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Date:      Mon, 17 Feb 2003 15:03:46 +0100
From:      Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>
To:        phk@phk.freebsd.dk
Cc:        Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@freebsd.org>, current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: disklabel is broken (GEOM related)
Message-ID:  <xzpd6lr57i5.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
In-Reply-To: <75380.1045490431@critter.freebsd.dk> (phk@phk.freebsd.dk's message of "Mon, 17 Feb 2003 15:00:31 %2B0100")
References:  <75380.1045490431@critter.freebsd.dk>

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phk@phk.freebsd.dk writes:
> In message <20030217133559.GA34599@vega.vega.com>, Maxim Sobolev writes:
> > It seems that disklabel is currently broken on -current. In `read' mode it
> > reports incorrect information about disk layout:
> Don't use the "-r" option and you will be ok.

Then how are we supposed to initialize devices which don't already
have a label?

root@des /home/des# dd count=16 </dev/zero >/dev/da0
16+0 records in
16+0 records out
8192 bytes transferred in 0.177704 secs (46099 bytes/sec)
root@des /home/des# disklabel -e da0
disklabel: ioctl DIOCGDINFO: Inappropriate ioctl for device
root@des /home/des# disklabel -w da0 auto
disklabel: Inappropriate ioctl for device
root@des /home/des# disklabel -rw da0 auto

DES
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Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org

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