On Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 10:18:22PM +0000, Sung N. Cho wrote:

[SNIP]

> 8 partitions:
> #        size    offset     fstype  [fsize bsize cpg/sgs]
>  d:   1470500         0     unused      0     0         # (Cyl.    0 - 718*)
>  h:   1470432        32      MSDOS                      # (Cyl.    0*- 717)
> disklabel: boot block size 0
> disklabel: super block size 0
> 
> I am using newfs /dev/sd0h but it's complaining that disklabel is not for 
> 4.2BSD.  So I did disklabel -e /dev/sd0h to change the disklabel, i.e., 
> change the line above "h: 1470432 32 MSDOS" to "h: 1470432 32 4.2BSD 1024 
> 8192" then save, exit.  This vreated EdDk file in /tmp.  I then did disklabel 
> -R /dev/sd0h /tmp/EdDk but it the disklabel of the disk never changes!

You could use disklabel -i sd0
Then edit the h label, by just typing h
and choose 4.2BSD for instance. :-)

Or first: disklabel sd0 > /tmp/label
Then edit /tmp/label.
Next: disklabel -R -r sd0 /tmp/label
Bye,

Mipam.