Re: newfs: cg 0: bad magic number

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To: Xavier Mertens <xavier@...>
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Date: Thursday, January 3, 2008 - 6:22 am

On 2008/01/03 08:02, Xavier Mertens wrote:

You overwrote things you shouldn't have when newfs'ing with
offset=0.

Scribble some zeros over the start of the disk (dd if=/dev/zero
of=/dev/rwd1c count=1k is more than enough), reboot (I can't
remember if this is needed, but it doesn't hurt), fdisk -i wd1,
disklabel -E wd1 (gives you the interactive editor from the
installer which suggests the correct offset), newfs.

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newfs: cg 0: bad magic number, Xavier Mertens, (Wed Jan 2, 8:29 pm)
Re: newfs: cg 0: bad magic number, Ted Unangst, (Wed Jan 2, 9:12 pm)
Re: newfs: cg 0: bad magic number, Xavier Mertens, (Wed Jan 2, 9:28 pm)
Re: newfs: cg 0: bad magic number, Xavier Mertens, (Thu Jan 3, 3:02 am)
Re: newfs: cg 0: bad magic number, Stuart Henderson, (Thu Jan 3, 6:22 am)
Re: newfs: cg 0: bad magic number, Nick Holland, (Wed Jan 2, 9:05 pm)
Re: newfs: cg 0: bad magic number, Xavier Mertens, (Wed Jan 2, 9:14 pm)
Re: newfs: cg 0: bad magic number, Xavier Mertens, (Wed Jan 2, 8:43 pm)
Re: newfs: cg 0: bad magic number, Martin Schröder, (Wed Jan 2, 8:56 pm)