| Title: | DIGITAL UNIX (FORMERLY KNOWN AS DEC OSF/1) |
| Notice: | Welcome to the Digital UNIX Conference |
| Moderator: | SMURF::DENHAM |
| Created: | Thu Mar 16 1995 |
| Last Modified: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 10068 |
| Total number of notes: | 35879 |
Hi, on a Alphastation 255 running dUnix V40b a customer of mine has the following problem: When he tries to read the label of a disk he gets an error message that the disk is unlabled or does not start at block 0. This error message is independent of using rrz3a or rrz3c in the disklabel command. The disk was used in a LSM configuration before. It is not possible to delete the disklabel by "disklabel -z" or write a new disklabel on the disk. Astonishingly after an reboot everything is OK. The disklabel can be readdd. Does anyone know this phaenomen or could suggest a workaround for it? - David [Posted by WWW Notes gateway]
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| 9131.1 | in-memory copy of disklabel? | NETRIX::"[email protected]" | leon strauss | Wed Mar 12 1997 16:39 | 16 |
From the disklabel man page ... Each form has an additional option, -r, which causes the label to be read from or written to the disk directly, instead of reading the system's in- memory copy of the label. When writing, the in-memory copy is also updated if the parameters are valid. The -r option must be used if there is no label already on the disk. This option may allow a label to be installed on a disk without kernel support for a label, such as when labels are first installed on a system. Perhaps you were reading the in-memory disklabel. When the system rebooted, the in-memory copy was cleared. Hope this helps leon [Posted by WWW Notes gateway] | |||||