On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 01:43:53PM +0200, Hubert Feyrer wrote:
> 
> I have an IDE disk that has Solaris/x86 and Win2k, and I want to read a
> single partition from it, for backup. Running "mbrlabel -w wd0" and
> "disklabel wd0" gives me:
> 
> 	a:	12289662	16386363	NTFS
> 	b:	11293632	28676088	MSDOS
> 	d:	40000464	       0	unused
> 	e:	 4192902	      63	NTFS
> 	f:	23583420	16386300	unused
> 	g:	12193335	 4192965	unused
> 
> Now when I try to read the "g" partition, I get an error:
> 
> 	# cd /dev
> 	# cat wd0g
> 	cat: wd0g: Device not configured
> 	# cat rwd0g
> 	cat: rwd0g: Device not configured
> 
> The device nodes for wd0g and rwd0g are there, that's not the problem. I
> can cat wd0a, wd0b, wd0d and wed0e just fine, but the partitions that were
> added by mbrlabel don't work.
> 
> Anyone got a clue?

"unused", I believe. Change it to something else.

Quentin Garnier.