Subject: Re: disklabel problem
To: John F. Acree <jfacree@eos.ncsu.edu>
From: Julian Coleman <J.D.Coleman@newcastle.ac.uk>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 10/15/1998 08:29:42
John F. Acree wrote:
>             I was having problems with it so I decided to just do a
> single partition on it.  When I tell disklabel to write the lebel to
> disk I get the following error:
>     disklabel: ioctl DIOCWINFO: Label magic number or checksum is wrong!

I received this message when I was repartitioning my external disk (on a
sparc 4).  My problem was that the partition sizes and start points were
not exact numbers of cylinders.  If you want just one partition, you should
be able to, either just use the 'c' partition, or duplicate the values for
the 'c' partition another partition.

J

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