Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2003 10:36:29 -0700 From: Joshua Oreman <oremanj@get-linux.org> To: Dan Strick <strick@covad.net> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How does one erase a FreeBSD disk (slice) label? Message-ID: <20030819173629.GB14137@webserver> In-Reply-To: <200308190841.h7J8fnvs000487@ice.nodomain> References: <200308190841.h7J8fnvs000487@ice.nodomain>
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On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 01:41:49AM -0700 or thereabouts, Dan Strick wrote: > How does one erase a FreeBSD disk (slice) label? > > [ ... ] > > Boot MS Windows and FORMAT the slice? Wouldn't work; FORMAT is braindead. > Disable the code in /sys/kern/subr_diskslice.c that protects > disk labels and build a new kernel? Should work, if you want to. But remember to enable it again! > Go back in time and kill the person that wrote this code > before he wrote it? LOL > Learn to love penguins? No way! > > Please help ... I am slowly going crazy... Boot from a FIXIT floppy/CD and try erasing it there. -- Josh > > Dan Strick > strick@covad.net > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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