Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2011 04:44:55 +0100 From: Damien Fleuriot <ml@my.gd> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: problem formating disk with gpart Message-ID: <4ED6F837.1080005@my.gd> In-Reply-To: <20182.58099.654536.572604@jerusalem.litteratus.org> References: <20182.39340.354254.608836@jerusalem.litteratus.org> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1111301706310.3692@wonkity.com> <20182.58099.654536.572604@jerusalem.litteratus.org>
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On 12/1/11 3:14 AM, Robert Huff wrote: > > Warren Block writes: > >> > One of my systems has a hot-swap eSATA device, which reports as >> > "ad1". I'm trying to use this to prepare a new disk using gpart and >> > something (possibly my understanding) is broken. >> > After removing another disk and inserting the new one, I do: >> > >> >>> gpart show ad1 >> > => 34 976773101 ad1 GPT (465G) >> > 34 976773101 - free - (465G) >> > >> > ... which is the value for the disk just removed. >> >> Maybe force geom retasting? >> >> true > /dev/ad1 > > I did this. > Afterwards, "gpart show" continues to report the 456G vaule, > not the 80G I should see. > > > Robert Huff > Any success using bsdlabel on the disk to initialize it, then fdisk to partition it ? Then report the geom show again.
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