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From: bs@Germany.EU.net (Bernard Steiner)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: help on labeling non-labeled new scsi disk
Date: 19 Oct 1995 10:27:39 +0100
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In article <463hk0$pde@overload.lbl.gov>, jin@gracie.lbl.gov (Jin Guojun[ITG]) writes:
|> In article <462cgf$hgc@germany.eu.net>,
|> Bernard Steiner <bs@Germany.EU.net> wrote:
|> >In article <461btt$34q@overload.lbl.gov>, jin@gracie.lbl.gov (Jin Guojun[ITG]) writes:
|> >|> disklabel: /dev/rsd2c: No such file or directory
|> ># cd /dev; sh MAKEDEV sd2h

|> I did not miss this. I won't say I am a guru in O.S. addministration.
|> However, I work on a variaty of O.S. and I didn't remove /dev/rsd2*.
|> If you familiar with FreeBSD, the sd0-3 are made in INSTALLATION time.
|> I do have to MAKEDEV sd4-7 to make 8 disks working. Also, the right syntax
|> for MAKEDEV is :
|> 	./MAKEDEV sd[0-9]
|> Thanks for your point.

Point taken.

|> # disklabel: /dev/rsd0c: No such file or directory

AFAIK rsd0c refers to the first fdisk slice that carries an a5 identifier.
Sorry - I haven't got your originial post anymore. Did you try disklabel -r
/dev/rsd0 (note: without partition 'c') ?

That is, if the whole disk belongs to BSD.
Now, if you have fdisk slices, you'd probably first put some bogus label on
/dev/rsd0, then fdisk /dev/rsd0, then disklabel /dev/rsd0sX (X being your a5
BSD slice).

Are there any docs on how this *ought* to work ?

Bernard