From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Nov 11 17:20: 7 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from apollo.backplane.com (apollo.backplane.com [216.240.41.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3741737B405; Sun, 11 Nov 2001 17:20:05 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dillon@localhost) by apollo.backplane.com (8.11.6/8.9.1) id fAC1Jq448679; Sun, 11 Nov 2001 17:19:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dillon) Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2001 17:19:52 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Dillon Message-Id: <200111120119.fAC1Jq448679@apollo.backplane.com> To: Cyrille Lefevre Cc: John De Boskey , Stable List Subject: Re: "disklabel -rw ar0 auto" breaks HPT raid0+1 References: <200111120106.fAC16J324069@gits.dyndns.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG :> :half cylinder is reserved by fdisk. so, it doesn't clobber anything. :> :is this explanation more clear ? :> :> No, the EXAMPLES section. : :there is nothing in the "EXAMPLES" section which prevent to write :the first 16 sectors if using the drive in `dangerously-dedicated' :mode that is w/ no fdisk partition. : :Cyrille. :-- :Cyrille Lefevre mailto:clefevre@citeweb.net The examples section, if you have a reasonably recent (4.3 or later I believe) system, shows you how to create a disklabel inside a slice (i.e. NOT dangerously dedicated), and shows you how to run fdisk to initialize a disk and then how to run disklabel to inintialize the slice. The sequence is something like: fdisk -BI da0 disklabel -w -r -B da0s1 auto disklabel -e da0s1 -Matt Matthew Dillon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message