From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Apr 7 19:41:21 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from dell.dannyland.org (dell.dannyland.org [64.81.36.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D5E6937B496 for ; Sat, 7 Apr 2001 19:41:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dannyman@toldme.com) Received: by dell.dannyland.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 37E3D5C41; Sat, 7 Apr 2001 19:42:44 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2001 19:42:44 -0700 From: dannyman To: Doug White Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: creating an fdisk partition in an automated way Message-ID: <20010407194244.O38361@dell.dannyland.org> References: <20010406181255.H59108@dell.dannyland.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: ; from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu on Sat, Apr 07, 2001 at 07:31:18PM -0700 X-Loop: djhoward@uiuc.edu X-URL: http://www.dannyland.org/~dannyman/ Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Apr 07, 2001 at 07:31:18PM -0700, Doug White wrote: > On Fri, 6 Apr 2001, dannyman wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 08:58:12PM -0700, Doug White wrote: [...] > > > fdisk -I is your friend. (DANGER: THIS IS DESTRUCTIVE -- READ THE MAN > > > PAGE FIRST!) > > > > Yeah ... I use it. It seems to do the right thing. Then disklabel > > doesn't work. :< > > Well, I should have commented that for best results, dd if=/dev/zero > of=/dev/${DISK} count=32 to make sure there's no leftovers for anything to > trip on. Hehehe, yeah done already tried that. Now I'm thinking maybe take the first 64 blocks of a dick I know is good and use that as my fdisk -I. :/ Well, we'll see on Monday. Thanks, -danny To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message