Date: Sat, 6 Feb 2010 08:44:07 -0800 (PST) From: Mark <redtick@sbcglobal.net> To: help help <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Fw: Re: sysinstall and mfs I'm out of Ideas. Message-ID: <37254.95277.qm@web81206.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
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=0A=0A--- On Sat, 2/6/10, Mark <redtick@sbcglobal.net> wrote:=0A=0A> From: = Mark <redtick@sbcglobal.net>=0A> Subject: Re: sysinstall and mfs I'm out of= Ideas.=0A> To: "Martin McCormick" <martin@dc.cis.okstate.edu>=0A> Date: Sa= turday, February 6, 2010, 12:17 AM=0A> =0A> =0A> --- On Fri, 2/5/10, Martin= McCormick <martin@dc.cis.okstate.edu>=0A> wrote:=0A> =0A> > From: Martin M= cCormick <martin@dc.cis.okstate.edu>=0A> > Subject: Re: sysinstall and mfs = I'm out of Ideas.=0A> > To: "Mark" <redtick@sbcglobal.net>=0A> > Date: Frid= ay, February 5, 2010, 8:21 PM=0A> > Mark writes:=0A> > > I'm sure you have = already read this from man=0A> > sysinstall, but it may give =0A> > > a hin= t to something you may have missed.=0A> > > =0A> > >=A0=0A> > =A0=A0=A0<<<<= =A0=A0=A0Note:=0A> > Nothing is actually written to disk by this function,= =0A> an=0A> > >=A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0=0A> > explicit call to diskParti= tionWrite being required for=0A> that=0A> > =0A> > > to happen. >>>>=0A> > = > =0A> > >=A0 =A0 =A0 diskPartitionWrite=0A> > >=A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0= Causes=0A> > any pending MBR changes (typically from the=0A> > >=A0 =A0 = =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0=0A> > diskPartitionEditor function) to be written out.= =0A> > > =0A> > >=A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0=0A> > Variables: None=0A> > > = =0A> > > =0A> > > <<< Note: No file system data is=0A> actually=0A> > writt= en to disk until an=0A> > >=A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0=0A> > explicit call = to diskLabelCommit is made.=0A> > =0A> > =A0=A0=A0 Thank you. The commit is= definitely=0A> > never happening.=0A> > When it does happen, several messa= ges appear and there=0A> is a=0A> > time=0A> > lag while the newfs takes pl= ace. It should happen=0A> right=0A> > after=0A> > one selects the installat= ion media. Instead, it just=0A> skips=0A> > that=0A> > step and ruins mfs b= y overwriting some of its=0A> utilities=0A> > with=0A> > binaries that shou= ld be going to the hard drive.=A0=0A> > Again, thanks.=0A> > =0A> > Martin = McCormick=0A> >=0A> =0A> perhaps adding "sleep 120" to halt the script exec= ution for=0A> 2 minutes to allow the new files system write to complete.=0A= > hth=0A> =0A>
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