:> # optional dd if you are paranoid
:> # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da0 bs=32k count=4
:> fdisk -I da0
:> disklabel -w -r da0s1 auto
:>
:> That's much preferable to having to use sysinstall if all you want to
:> do is initialize a label on a slice.
:
:Yes, this is definitely the desired behavior.
:
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:John Baldwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/
John, can you explain how the MBR bootstraps a slice? Should I make
disklabel zero-out the fdisk partition table area in the slice rather
then installing the dummy fdisk partition table? That is, for the
case where -B is used on a slice (da0s1) verses on the whole-disk (da0)?
-Matt
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