Casper H.S. Dik <Casper.Dik@Sun.COM> writes:

>David Kirkby <david.kirkby@onetel.net> writes:

>>A friend has a Sun barcoded (540-4689) hard drive, made by Fujitsu.
>>Unless I am very much mistaken, the disk is half the capacity marked on
>>the drive.

>Looks like it was labelled incorrectly by someone.


>Clear the label and relabel (will lose all data except when the new label
>matches the same partitions)


And you zap the old label using:


dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rdsk/..... count=16

which will overwrite the first 8K of the disk (this will leave ufs
filesystem intact but you can only recover them by repartition with
the exact same partition boundaries).

Casper