Re: /dev/zero

[Andrew Clausen]

Stephane BRANGER wrote:
> 
> Hi guys !!!
> 
> I'm working with parted library version 1.2.9 and I made a :
> 
> dd /dev/zero /dev/hda
> 
> then I used my program (which worked fine before) and I got the following
> error:
> 
> Unable to open /dev/hda - unrecognized disk label
> 
> Could so give me some help about that ????

You need to create a new disk label (eg: with Parted, you would use the
mklabel command)

mklabel is just a front end to ped_disk_create()

Andrew Clausen