Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2007 08:36:15 +1000 From: David Cecil <david.cecil@nokia.com> To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?ext_Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?= <des@des.no> Cc: Dave <dmehler26@woh.rr.com>, freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Subject: Re: issues with geom and adding disks Message-ID: <461EB45F.8070001@nokia.com> In-Reply-To: <86wt0he51r.fsf@dwp.des.no> References: <000901c77d0a$f7ae51d0$0200a8c0@satellite> <86wt0he51r.fsf@dwp.des.no>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
ext Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: > "Dave" <dmehler26@woh.rr.com> writes: > >> That worked fine. My problem came with fdisk. I used: >> >> fdisk -BI ad6 >> >> and i got the message: >> >> Invalid partition table >> geom not found. >> > > It says "invalid partition table" because there is no pre-existing > partition table on the disk. This will not show up again if you run > 'fdisk -I ad6' a second time. > > I don't know what "Geom not found" comes from (a bug in either fdisk > or libgeom?) but it seems to be harmless as well; fdisk ignores the > error and goes on to write the updated MBR to the disk. > I tracked this down at one point and yes, it is harmless. If I recall correctly, it's due to there being no partition table. My memory for such things isn't the best though... Regards, Dave
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?461EB45F.8070001>