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Bug #1278

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disklabel64 can't label new partition

Added by corecode about 15 years ago. Updated over 5 years ago.

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Closed
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High
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Description

The kernel won't let disklabel write the label unless I've touched the slice before:

sweatshorts % sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ad6
^C25372+0 records in
25371+0 records out
12989952 bytes transferred in 2.380336 secs (5457192 bytes/sec)
1 sweatshorts % sudo fdisk -IB /dev/ad6
  • Working on device /dev/ad6 *
    fdisk: invalid fdisk partition table found
    Warning: ending cylinder wraps, using all 1's
    sweatshorts % sudo fdisk -IB /dev/ad6
  • Working on device /dev/ad6 *
    Warning: ending cylinder wraps, using all 1's
    sweatshorts % sudo disklabel64 -w ad6s1 auto
    disklabel64: ioctl DIOCWDINFO64: label magic number or checksum is wrong!
    (disklabel or kernel is out of date?)
    1 sweatshorts % dd if=/dev/ad6s1 of=/dev/null count=100
    100+0 records in
    100+0 records out
    51200 bytes transferred in 0.013747 secs (3724455 bytes/sec)
    sweatshorts % sudo disklabel64 -w ad6s1 auto
    sweatshorts %
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