Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2012 08:56:24 -0800 From: Kevin Oberman <kob6558@gmail.com> To: Scott Bennett <bennett@cs.niu.edu> Cc: Erich Dollansky <erich@alogreentechnologies.com>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: random problem with 8.3 from yesterday Message-ID: <CAN6yY1tMMnhi3bcd1k_UuOEVH65NQEtFy33HSkCapKFSz3x6cA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <201202251027.q1PARURH021975@mp.cs.niu.edu>
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On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 2:27 AM, Scott Bennett <bennett@cs.niu.edu> wrote:
> On Wed, 22 Feb 2012 13:34:36 +0700 Erich Dollansky
> <erich@alogreentechnologies.com> wrote:
>
>>I got a new thumb drive which was FAT formatted. I use this script to change this:
>>
>>!/bin/tcsh
>>#
>># This script format a thumb drive connected to USB as da0.
>>#
>>printf "You have to run this script as 'root' to succeed.\n"
>>printf "Warning this script will delete all your data from /dev/da0. Continue? > "
>>set Eingabe = $<
>>if ("$Eingabe" == "y") then
>> printf "\nDeleting the device "
>> dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da0 bs=1k count=1
>> printf "\nWriting the BSD label "
>> bsdlabel -Bw da0 auto
>
> Hmmm...so no MBR and no GPT either? Just the bare device? I guess
> I haven't tried that, so I don't know what that would do.
Call me a bit confused, but I thought -B did write an MBR. It always
has seemed to do so for me, at any rate. From man bsdlabel:
"Installing Bootstraps
If the -B option is specified, bootstrap code will be read from the file
/boot/boot and written to the disk."
Or am I not understanding something?
--
R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
E-mail: kob6558@gmail.com
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