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Subject: Re: gpart: table 'da0' is corrupt; operation not permitted
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On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 1:44 PM, aurfalien <aurfalien@gmail.com> wrote:

> Upon doing;
>
> gpart destroy da0
>
> I get;
>
> gpart: Device busy

crude but effective:


DISK=da0

offset=`diskinfo $DISK | awk '{ print $4 - 131072 }'`
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/$DISK bs=64k count=1
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/$DISK bs=64k seek=$offset

gpart create -s gpt ${DISK}