Re: Partitioning Disks on DS20

[Larry Sendlosky <larry scrugs lkg dec com>]

>   I've seen this when the disk in question already some sort
>   of BSD label on it and for some reason fdisk doesn't like
>   the disk drive parameters (sect/track etc). I've solved this
>   2 different ways (actually 3, but using another Unix system
>   is cheating).
>  
>   1) Some how get 'dd' onto the system and 'dd of=/dev/sdx
>     if=/dev/null bs=2048K'

     Damn, I always mix up /dev/null and /dev/zero. Can never remember
     that command. Sorry. I also forgot 'count=1'. Thanks to the
     person who posted right after I replied to this.
  
     dd of=/dev/sdx if=/dev/zero bs=2048K count=1 should work
     as does the "cat" command in the previous mail.

>  
>   2) In fdisk, the BSD menu, do E for edit and input the correct
>      numbers for the drive (after clearing the partitions).
> 
>   Hope this helps
> 
>   larry
> 


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 Larry Sendlosky			 	            AMT
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