Included an old disk into a running system. Want to install a new label onto it:
uncle# disklabel -Brw da0 auto disklabel: ioctl DIOCSDINFO: open partition would move or shrink Needless to say, there is nothing open at all on it. As i said, an old disk that incidentally has a BSD label on it. It could have had a Sun label, a stale fdisk table, or whatever on it. Needless to say, it doesn't allow me to dd /dev/zero over it, as i could do in any FreeBSD version until now. Of course, i could now camcontrol format it, but i really wish there was a method to get this Windowis^H^H^H^H^H^Hannoying behaviour turned off for a while. I /am/ the sysadmin here, i want to get control over my devices, and i don't want someone to tell me what i am allowed to do with them. I want to shoot into my foot, d*mnit. At least, there should be an environment variable that turns all these nitpicky checks off. (My uneducated guess is it's GEOM firing at me here, is it?) -- cheers, J"org .-.-. --... ...-- -.. . DL8DTL http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-) To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
