From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Mar 12 14:24:55 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA15402 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 12 Mar 1997 14:24:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id OAA15395 for ; Wed, 12 Mar 1997 14:24:49 -0800 (PST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id XAA14262; Wed, 12 Mar 1997 23:22:55 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) id XAA09895; Wed, 12 Mar 1997 23:00:59 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: <19970312230059.GM42181@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Wed, 12 Mar 1997 23:00:59 +0100 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: batie@aahz.jf.intel.com (Alan Batie) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: disk docs References: X-Mailer: Mutt 0.60_p2-3,5,8-9 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: ; from Alan Batie on Mar 12, 1997 11:03:03 -0800 Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Alan Batie wrote: > I'm willing to do it if I can find the information needed. Currently, I've > tried "disklabel -r -w sd0 auto", and it complains > "write: Read-only file system". Wipe out old junk from the disk before. The slice code is fairly conservative in an attempt to protect those disk regions that are owned by non-BSD systems against clobbering. dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rsd0 count=100 disklabel -Brw sd0 auto should always succeed. Don't mess with fdisk in this case, it's not needed. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)