Re: Broken Disk

2004-05-24 Thread Jason Dusek
Hi, Through a combination of this list's suggestions, I managed to get fdisk to successfully operate on my disk. Thanks. However, the step about 'editing my label' as given in the handbook: # disklabel -e da1s1 # Edit the disklabel just created. is not something I really understand. Where is

Re: Broken Disk

2004-05-24 Thread Bill Moran
Jason Dusek wrote: Hi, Through a combination of this list's suggestions, I managed to get fdisk to successfully operate on my disk. Thanks. However, the step about 'editing my label' as given in the handbook: # disklabel -e da1s1 # Edit the disklabel just created. is not something I really

Re: Broken Disk

2004-05-24 Thread Jerry McAllister
Jason Dusek wrote: Hi, Through a combination of this list's suggestions, I managed to get fdisk to successfully operate on my disk. Thanks. However, the step about 'editing my label' as given in the handbook: # disklabel -e da1s1 # Edit the disklabel just created. is not

Re: Broken Disk

2004-05-24 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 03:24:33PM -0400, Jerry McAllister wrote: man disklabel is pretty comprehensive. Yes. But, you have to read it together with man fdisk to make any sense of it and even then the writing is rather convoluted and confusing. They could both use a complete systematic

Re: Broken Disk

2004-05-24 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 03:24:33PM -0400, Jerry McAllister wrote: man disklabel is pretty comprehensive. =20 Yes. But, you have to read it together with man fdisk to make any sense of it and even then the writing is rather convoluted and confusing.= =20 They could both use a

Re: Broken Disk

2004-05-24 Thread Jason Dusek
So, anyway, user questions should not be surprising. (But please ask reasonably specific questions or it is hard to give a relevant answer) jerry Fair Enough, My question is 'how do I edit a disklabel?' I assume that I am supposed to add an 'e' partition, but it seems that the c

Re: Broken Disk

2004-05-24 Thread Jerry McAllister
So, anyway, user questions should not be surprising. (But please ask reasonably specific questions or it is hard to give a relevant answer) jerry Fair Enough, My question is 'how do I edit a disklabel?' I assume that I am supposed to add an 'e' partition, but it seems

Re: Broken Disk

2004-05-21 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Fri, May 21, 2004 at 07:36:11AM -0500, Jason Dusek wrote: I am trying to put a new disk on my system. I read the description of the process in FreeBSD Unleashed and apparently I misunderstood it, because I ended up installing a boot manager on the new disk. Now I can not mount it - I

Re: Broken Disk

2004-05-21 Thread Malcolm Kay
On Friday 21 May 2004 22:26, Matthew Seaman wrote: On Fri, May 21, 2004 at 07:36:11AM -0500, Jason Dusek wrote: I am trying to put a new disk on my system. I read the description of the process in FreeBSD Unleashed and apparently I misunderstood it, because I ended up installing a boot