Bug #1278
Updated by martin1234 over 5 years ago
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 (disklabel or kernel is out of date?) 1 sweatshorts % dd if=/dev/ad6s1 of=/dev/null count=100 100+0 records in 100+0 records out 51200 bytes transferred in 0.013747 secs (3724455 bytes/sec)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 %