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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!serv.hinet.net!news.uoregon.edu!news.acsu.buffalo.edu!newsstand.cit.cornell.edu!portc01.blue.aol.com!news-peer.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Seagate st31051N troubles... Date: 5 Oct 1996 19:42:12 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 19 Message-ID: <536dmk$ba@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <52str4$8fn@umbc7.umbc.edu> <531cnc$f1@anorak.coverform.lan> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E brian@anorak.coverform.lan (Brian Somers) wrote: > Yep - bummer ! I've seen this too. However, you'll find that > "disklabel -r -e" allows you to edit the label. Leave the 'c' partition > and make sure that you don't exceed it's boundaries - it represents the > whole drive. Don't create a 'b' without an 'a' - swap doesn't leave any > room for the label (and promptly clobbers it). Btw., Manu Iyengar <iyengar@grunthos.pscwa.psca.com>, one of the people who went all the winding ways of messing with disklabels before, was kind enough to provide a fine description of all that stuff. It's in the current FAQ, section 2.15. Give it a try! -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)