On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 06:28:57PM +0100, Steve Blinkhorn wrote:
> 
> I have just had a double failure - main disk supporting users failed
> *and* backup tape drive failure.   I had, however kept rsync'd copies
> of very nearly everything on another machine.   But since it will take
> me time to make emergency DVD backups, I currently have only one copy
> of everything.   On this same machine is a whole unused, unlabeled
> 160Gbyte disk waiting to be commissioned which is identical to the
> main disk - they are both Maxtor 6L160P0.
> 
> My attempts at labeling this disk have failed, however.   I tried
> adding a copy of the label from the existing wd0 into /etc/disktab:

If you're just trying to label wd1 the same way wd0 is, you can just do:
disklabel wd0 > foo
disklabel -rR wd1 foo

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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