On Sun, 28 Oct 2012 15:07:17 +0000 David Laight <david%l8s.co.uk@localhost> wrote: > > The first looks kind of redundant. Am I missing something? > > You want to be able to zero the sector that contains any existing > NetBSD disk label. > The kernel won't let you do that unless you do an ioctl() first, and > the flag is cleared on last clse of all the disk partitions. > Zeroing the mbr sector stops the kernel finding a disk label [1] - so > it won't error the next write. So, yes I was missing something. Thanks :) -- 3072D/F3A66B3A Julian Yon (2012 General Use) <pgp.2012%jry.me@localhost>
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