SUMMARY: Incorporating New Disk

From: Steve Swinnea <swinnea_at_weiss.che.utexas.edu>
Date: Wed, 03 Jan 1996 14:34:06 -0600

I was installing a new Quantum XP32150 disk and asked:

: > Now I suppose I'm ready to write a label. Since this isn't a disk in
: > /etc/disktab, how do I go about writing a proper label for this disk?

The most popular answer is that disklabel will write a generic label with
reasonable defaults using:

         /sbin/disklabel -w -r rz10 RZxx

Thanks to...

 Dale Cook <cdm_at_hyperk.com>
 alan_at_nabeth.cxo.dec.com
 "Andrew C. Saylor" <asaylor_at_alpha.comsource.net>
 mclaughl_at_nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov
 Joakim.Hartikainen_at_ey.se_at_ey.se
 Selden E Ball Jr <SEB_at_LNS62.LNS.CORNELL.EDU>
 "Kris Chandrasekhar _at_ALF" <chandrasek_at_odixie.ENET.dec.com>
 Eric R Showalter <eshowalt_at_mercury.jlfrench.com>
 "Dr. Tom Blinn, 603-881-0646" <tpb_at_zk3.dec.com>
 clare_at_cs.auckland.ac.nz (Clare West)


Steve S.
Received on Wed Jan 03 1996 - 22:00:59 NZDT

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