On Sat, May 09, 2009 at 12:20:25PM +0200, Joachim Schipper wrote: > The bioctl(8) man page helpfully suggests dd for zeroing out the > disklabel etc. on the new disk. However, the command doesn't work, since > OpenBSD's dd doesn't understand '1M'. > > It may be slightly more readable to use 'bs=1024 count=1024' or some > variant.
Or, rather, the following diff. But I'm not sure having to places documenting softraid usage is a good thing (bioctl(8) and softraid(4)). Maybe we should just remove this example from bioctl(8)? Index: bioctl.8 =================================================================== RCS file: /home/priteau/cvs/src/sbin/bioctl/bioctl.8,v retrieving revision 1.66 diff -p -u -r1.66 bioctl.8 --- bioctl.8 19 Mar 2009 15:11:59 -0000 1.66 +++ bioctl.8 9 May 2009 12:25:32 -0000 @@ -232,7 +232,7 @@ or don't get confused by the random data that appears on the new disk. This can be done with the following command (assuming the new disk is sd3): .Bd -literal -offset 3n -# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rsd3c bs=1M count=1 +# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rsd3c bs=1m count=1 .Ed .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr ami 4 ,
