Subject: Re: Changing from MSDOS to NTFS
To: Steven Grunza <steven_grunza@ieee.org>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
List: port-i386
Date: 03/07/2002 20:24:35
On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 08:20:16AM -0500, Steven Grunza wrote:
> My dual boot machine recently changed from WinME to Win2000.  The disklabel 
> has the following line in it:
> 
> f: 54726525             63              MSDOS                   # 
> (Cyl.  0*-54292*)
> 
> 
> When I used the command "disklabel -e -r wd0" under NetBSD-1.5.2 to change 
> the MSDOS to NTFS I was asked if I wanted to erase the entire disk.  Of 
> course I replied no.  When I checked the disklabel with "disklabel -r wd0" 
> I saw that the label was unchanged.

did you try 'disklabel -e' (without -r) ?

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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