SUMMARY: unable to repartition disk

From: Sauri Gudlavalleti <sauri_g_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2001 15:51:06 -0700 (PDT)

Hi,

Many replied with the simple solution:

disklabel -z /dev/disk/dsk2c
disklabel -z /dev/rdisk/dsk2c <if that did not work>

Thanks a lot!!

-Sauri

Original message was
> I have another question: The crashed computer had 3
> disks, and the 3rd disk had /dev/rz2c as a partition
> on the usr domain, which we now know has crashed. I
> am
> trying to clean-reinstall the machine now, and I am
> unable to re-partition that drive. The partition
> keeps
> showing up as an advfs partition. diskconfig says
> changes are made, but if I re-open that disk for
> config, it shows the same advfs partition again.
> <the
> partition actually covers the whole disk>
>
> disklabel -r /dev/disk/dsk2c <I am installing 5.1>
> says "not a character device"
>
> How do I re-use that disk afresh? Format it? How do
> I
> do that?
>

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Received on Wed Sep 05 2001 - 22:52:00 NZST

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