> 
> On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 06:28:57PM +0100, Steve Blinkhorn wrote:
> > 
> > I have just had a double failure - main disk supporting users failed
> > *and* backup tape drive failure.   I had, however kept rsync'd copies
> > of very nearly everything on another machine.   But since it will take
> > me time to make emergency DVD backups, I currently have only one copy
> > of everything.   On this same machine is a whole unused, unlabeled
> > 160Gbyte disk waiting to be commissioned which is identical to the
> > main disk - they are both Maxtor 6L160P0.
> > 
> > My attempts at labeling this disk have failed, however.   I tried
> > adding a copy of the label from the existing wd0 into /etc/disktab:
> 
> If you're just trying to label wd1 the same way wd0 is, you can just do:
> disklabel wd0 > foo
> disklabel -rR wd1 foo
> 

I still get: 

disklabel: Invalid signature in mbr record 0

-- 
Steve Blinkhorn <steve@prd.co.uk>