Re: missleading msg by disklabel

Feedback from the software fails, not the man. And if there is someone stick on these failures forget the "users", my advice.

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From: brad <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Date: Aug 7, 2026 15:42:47
Subject: Re: missleading msg by disklabel

> On 8/7/26 09:06, dan wrote:
>> Hello,
>> 
>> When I try to disklabel on a partition instead of a disk I get an i/o error msg just like the disk is in readonly mode for any reason (maybe locked by securelevel, maybe locked by the usb enclousur, and so forth).
>> 
>> Is it possible to improve the msg to avoid missunderstandings and loses of time ?
> 
> disklabel doesn't expect a partition. It expects a disk. The name itself sort of suggests that.
> 
> The best thing to do is to read the man page, and examine how you ran disklabel. It doesn't take that much time and you'll learn more about disklabel and become a better sysadmin.
> 
> Brad