From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Mar 21 02:21:18 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id CAA16413 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 21 Mar 1996 02:21:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id CAA16386 for ; Thu, 21 Mar 1996 02:21:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id LAA15353; Thu, 21 Mar 1996 11:20:49 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id LAA20948; Thu, 21 Mar 1996 11:20:48 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.4/8.6.9) id KAA12350; Thu, 21 Mar 1996 10:51:44 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199603210951.KAA12350@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Adding a damn 2nd disk To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Thu, 21 Mar 1996 10:51:43 +0100 (MET) Cc: dave@kachina.jetcafe.org (Dave Hayes) In-Reply-To: <199603202036.MAA05598@kachina.jetcafe.org> from "Dave Hayes" at Mar 20, 96 12:36:29 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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. ;-)