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Date:      Thu, 21 Mar 1996 10:51:43 +0100 (MET)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers)
Cc:        dave@kachina.jetcafe.org (Dave Hayes)
Subject:   Re: Adding a damn 2nd disk
Message-ID:  <199603210951.KAA12350@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199603202036.MAA05598@kachina.jetcafe.org> from "Dave Hayes" at Mar 20, 96 12:36:29 pm

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As Dave Hayes wrote:

> >fdisk is far from being optimal -- but what exactly ``doesn't work
> >reliably''?
> 
> I have found that I can Fdisk a disk, but subsequent disklabel will
> refuse to write a label that the OS can read.

How did you write it?

	disklabel -B -r -w sd1s1 foobar

should work.  For first-time initialization, the ``-r'' is mandatory.

-- 
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. ;-)



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