Re: Problem with a corrupted disklabel
David Laight <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.os.netbsd.ports.hpcarm |
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On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 05:04:34PM +0100, Richard Danter wrote: > Thanks Mark. For some reason my version of disklabel does not have the > -D option. <sigh> That only got added post 3.0 If you hexdump the start of the disk, the label is (probably) in sector 0 (or maybe sector 1, or maybe the first (or second) sector of a netbsd mbr partition). In any case writing zeros to the sector with 'dd' will zap it (but you might have to use disklabel -W to make the label unprotected [1]). David [1] run 'sleep 9999 </dev/rwdxd' in another window (or with &) to keep the diak open. -- David Laight: [email protected]