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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!gatech!usenet.ufl.edu!usenet.cis.ufl.edu!caen!destroyer!news.itd.umich.edu!tiamat.umd.umich.edu!crt From: crt@tiamat.umd.umich.edu (Rob Shady) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: [NetBSD] Problem with disklabel'ing a 2nd drive Date: 29 Jun 1993 19:18:22 -0400 Organization: Univerisity of Michigan - Dearborn Lines: 17 Message-ID: <crt.741395694@tiamat.umd.umich.edu> References: <GSPIEGEL.81.741370739@bsa3.kent.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: cw-u02.umd.umich.edu Keywords: disklabel GSPIEGEL@bsa3.kent.edu (Greg Spiegelberg) writes: [Misc. deleted] >2) I cd /dev and do the 'disklabel -w wd1 maxtor7245'. What I get > back is this... > disklabel: ioctl DIOCWDINFO: No disk label on disk; > use 'disklabel -r' to install initial label > This makes no sense. The -r option only reads the drive info. > Secondly, I have no idea what the error message means so I'm not > sure what it wants. -r? No... Hint: type 'man disklabel', the -r option means deal directly with the disk, and not with the label in memory for that disk... try 'disklabel -r -w /dev/rwd1a maxtor7245'