Summary: disklabel problem

From: Cai, Xuejun <caixj_at_alpha02.ihep.ac.cn>
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 22:49:49 +0800 (CST)

Thanks for so many people's response!

The solution is using
"scu -f /dev/rrz16c format" and then using "disklabel -wr /dev/rrz16c
rz28".
The answer is actually posted in previsous summary. I'm sorry for not
searching in archive first.

Thanks again for all peoples.

Cai, Xuejun


The origin messages:
On Tue, 11 Jul 2000, Cai, Xuejun wrote:

> many people suggest zero the disklabel first, but no help.
>
> #disklabel -z /dev/rrz16c
> Disk is unlabeled or, /dev/rrz16a does not start at block 0 of the disk
>
> I also tried the following command, but all no help.
> #dd if=/dev/null of=/dev/rz16c
> and
> #/usr/lbin/zzero /dev/rrz16c
>
>
> On Tue, 11 Jul 2000, Cai, Xuejun wrote:
>
> > Hi, admins
> >
> > I got the following error message when it try to rewrite the disklable of
> > one disk,
> > "# disklabel -wr rz16 rz28
> > disklabel: ioctl DIOCSDINFO: Open partition would move or shrink
> > Use alternate partition"
> > There is one freebsd system installed previously in this disk. Now I want
> > repartition this disk and use it as tru64-unix data disk.
> >

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