From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 1 13:26:58 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D47E106564A for ; Thu, 1 Dec 2011 13:26:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ml@my.gd) Received: from mail-qw0-f54.google.com (mail-qw0-f54.google.com [209.85.216.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F3BBE8FC15 for ; Thu, 1 Dec 2011 13:26:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: by qadc10 with SMTP id c10so1646172qad.13 for ; Thu, 01 Dec 2011 05:26:57 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.229.12.206 with SMTP id y14mr1284770qcy.95.1322744298216; Thu, 01 Dec 2011 04:58:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from dfleuriot.local (angel.c-mal.com. [82.241.189.111]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id z1sm5569520qao.1.2011.12.01.04.58.16 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Thu, 01 Dec 2011 04:58:16 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4ED779E6.6070702@my.gd> Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2011 13:58:14 +0100 From: Damien Fleuriot User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:8.0) Gecko/20111105 Thunderbird/8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Robert Huff References: <20182.39340.354254.608836@jerusalem.litteratus.org> <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> In-Reply-To: <20183.30595.288219.914337@jerusalem.litteratus.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: problem formating disk with gpart X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2011 13:26:58 -0000 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