On Wednesday, 1 March 2000 at 11:11:35 -0800, Mike Smith wrote:
>>> What are you using for your command lines? You have to target the
>>> disklabel specifically at slice 1 on the disk otherwise disklabel will
>>> think you're trying to overwrite the slice table and get mad.
>>
>> Here's what I did:
>>
>> fdisk -e /dev/rda1
>> disklabel -r -w da1 auto
>>
>> The disklabel command gives 'disklabel: No space left on device'.
>
> This is nonsensical; first you are trying to slice the disk, then you are
> trying to initialise it sliceless without first removing the slices.
>
> If you want the disk sliced, use disklabel on rda1sX, where X is the
> slice you've created. If you want it unsliced, dd 8k of zeroes over the
> beginning of da1 first.
You've got to admit that that's a workaround. What we really need is
some kind of "please start again from scratch" option.
Greg
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