Fantastic,
Ok, the problem I had was that I referencing the "C" partition in
the commands. To do things like I was trying, you have to reference the
"A" partition:
disklabel -r -e /dev/rdisk/dsk26a
Once I did that, it worked.
However, I better way was pointed out to me by most people:
disklabel -s -F /dev/rdisk/dsk26a unused
The "-F" flag was needed in this case as the partition was already
tagged as not "unused" (ie - raw).
It was also suggested to zero out the label using "disklabel -z
/dev/rdisk/dsk26a"
Thanks to: Dr. Thomas P. Blinn, John Farmer, Dermot Paikkos,
Selden E. Ball, Jr., Brandon Malli, Manish Soni, Jason Neil, Olle Eriksson,
Oisin McGuinness, Alan Davis and anyone else who might respond after I send
this.
thanks,
Paul
At 09:52 AM 11/5/01 -0500, Paul LaMadeleine wrote:
>Greetings,
>
> I'm trying to edit the disklabel on a disk. I know I've done
> this before without an issue, but now the edit's I make don't seem to be
> sticking. what I'm doing is:
>
> 1) disklabel -r /dev/rdisk/dsk26c
> 2) The "C" partition is currently set to raw, I want it to be
> unused so I can add it into and ADVFS domain
> 3) disklabel -r -e /dev/rdisk/dsk26c
> 3a) once in vi, I change "raw" to "unused" for the "C"
> partition
> 3b) save and quit
> 4) disklabel -r /dev/rdisk/dsk26c
> 5) I notice that the changes I made did not work.
>
> What am I missing?
>
> thanks,
>
> Paul
>
Received on Mon Nov 05 2001 - 17:25:01 NZDT