Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2014 15:19:39 +0200 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: Bertram Scharpf <lists@bertram-scharpf.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 10.0 bsdlabel returns an error Message-ID: <20140625151939.ff80dd31.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <20140625125830.GA1329@becker.bs.l> References: <20140625125830.GA1329@becker.bs.l>
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On Wed, 25 Jun 2014 14:58:30 +0200, Bertram Scharpf wrote: > Hi, > > I tried to find out how large the partitions on my main hard disk > are. But then: > > # bsdlabel ada0s2 > bsdlabel: /dev/ada0s2 read: Invalid argument > # bsdlabel ada0s3 > bsdlabel: /dev/ada0s3 read: Invalid argument > # uname -rs > FreeBSD 10.0-STABLE > # mount | grep ada0s2 | wc -l > 0 > > I remembered that I solved an earlier label issue on an other > machine by booting 9.2 from a USB stick. This helped me here, too. In current FreeBSD versions, the "traditional tools" of fdisk and bsdlabel are considered deprecated. Partitioning should be done with gpart, and if possible, GPT is preferred over MBR style. Maybe you can achieve better results with using the corresponding gpart commands? > Still, I want to know why the 10.0 "bsdlabel" doesn't work. Maybe it's on the same way as sysinstall? :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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