Subject: Re: Formatting a CF card
To: Peter Seebach <seebs@plethora.net>
From: Frederick Bruckman <fb@enteract.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 12/17/1999 13:47:06
On Fri, 17 Dec 1999, Peter Seebach wrote:
> I've got a CF card (40MB) which has, unaccountably, decided that it needs to
> have 16kB blocks. So, I want to reformat it.
>
> 1. I can't figure out a way to specify blocksize for newfs_msdos.
Don't know about that...
> 2. Even if I could, I can't seem to format the card, possibly because there's
> no real disklabel.
>
> So, how do I label the CF card? 'disklabel -e' complains that it can't
> write to the label until I create one with 'disklabel -r'. I can't seem to
> get that to work. 'disklabel -r' shows, indeed, that none is present.
> 'disklabel -i -r' fails, because there's no disk label.
The usual way is "disklabel wdXX >protolabel; vi protolabel; disklabel
-r -R protolabel", after which "disklabel -e" will work as well.