Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2011 13:58:14 +0100 From: Damien Fleuriot <ml@my.gd> To: Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: problem formating disk with gpart Message-ID: <4ED779E6.6070702@my.gd> In-Reply-To: <20183.30595.288219.914337@jerusalem.litteratus.org> References: <20182.39340.354254.608836@jerusalem.litteratus.org> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1111301706310.3692@wonkity.com> <20182.63924.526118.602623@jerusalem.litteratus.org> <4ED6FACF.1070908@my.gd> <20183.1695.842480.706095@jerusalem.litteratus.org> <4ED72693.1000000@my.gd> <20183.30595.288219.914337@jerusalem.litteratus.org>
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On 12/1/11 1:48 PM, Robert Huff wrote: > > Damien Fleuriot writes: > >> >> Try this: >> >> gpart delete -i 1 >> >> gpart create -s 78g -i 1 -t freebsd-ufs /dev/ad1 >> > >> > Done >> >> >>> gpart show ad1 >> > => 34 976773101 ad1 GPT (465G) >> > 34 163577856 1 freebsd-ufs (78G) >> > 163577890 813195245 - free - (387G) >> > >> >> Then try to newfs -U it. >> > >> > Same error message as above, only with sector # 163577855. >> > >> > >> > For the record: this is being done on: >> > >> > FreeBSD 9.0-BETA1 #0: Tue Aug 23 10:07:23 EDT 2011 amd64 >> > >> >> >> You may want to try on different versions to check if you have >> better results: > > Unfortunately, not an option in my current set-up. > What makes this so puzzling is I have two other GPT disks - > created either with this version or one from mid-April - that got > built with no problems not caused by my own ignorance. > > > Robert Huff > As was pointed out earlier, did you hot-swap the disk, or did you shutdown the system before inserting it ? That might be a lead to follow
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