Re: How does one erase a FreeBSD disk (slice) label?

2003-08-21 Thread Joshua Oreman
On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 02:49:09AM -0700 or thereabouts, Dan Strick wrote: > >> > > > Go back in time and kill the person that wrote this code > > > before he wrote it? > > > > LOL > >> > > What does "LOL" stand for? Laughing Out Loud -- Josh > > Dan Strick > [E

Re: How does one erase a FreeBSD disk (slice) label?

2003-08-19 Thread Joshua Oreman
On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 01:41:49AM -0700 or thereabouts, Dan Strick wrote: > How does one erase a FreeBSD disk (slice) label? > > [ ... ] > > Boot MS Windows and FORMAT the slice? Wouldn't work; FORMAT is braindead. > Disable the code in /sys/kern/subr_diskslice.c that

How does one erase a FreeBSD disk (slice) label?

2003-08-19 Thread Dan Strick
How does one erase a FreeBSD disk (slice) label? Suppose I want to reuse a disk slice that currently contains a FreeBSD file system for some other purpose that would not involve a FreeBSD disk label and partition table. The kernel won't let me overwrite the label block. Even if I write e