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From: Wolfgang Helbig <wh@MX.BA-Stuttgart.De>
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Subject: Re: Adding Hard Drives - Prepping
To: kingram@ipro.com (Ken Ingram)
Date: Thu, 9 Jan 1997 10:00:48 +0100 (MET)
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In-Reply-To: <199701090349.TAA16665@ipro.com> from Ken Ingram at "Jan 8, 97 07:56:50 pm"
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> 
> newfs needs disklabel from what I can gather from the man pages.
> Do I need to add any info to Disktab? The drive is the exact same model
> as the first one, yet the first drive has no entry in /etc/disktab.
 
Try the -auto flag of disklabel(). If that works you won't need an entry
in /etc/disktab.

Wolfgang Helbig