Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2006 13:23:22 +0300 (EEST) From: Dmitry Pryanishnikov <dmitry@atlantis.dp.ua> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Misleading "fdisk: Geom not found" in 6.1-RELEASE Message-ID: <20060704130402.X31561@atlantis.atlantis.dp.ua>
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Hello! I've noticed that using fdisk against ad2 drive gives misleading diagnostics at the end of execution (there are no mounted partitions at the drive, OS boot device is ad0): root@test# uname -r 6.1-RELEASE root@test# mount|grep ad2 root@test# fdisk -a ad2 ******* Working on device /dev/ad2 ******* ... Partition 2 is marked active Do you want to change the active partition? [n] y Supply a decimal value for "active partition" [2] 1 Are you happy with this choice [n] y ... Should we write new partition table? [n] y fdisk: Geom not found root@test# One can think that it's an error message, however new partition table actually gets written to the disk, next fdisk run (and 'hd /dev/ad2', to be sure) confirms so. What's the reason of this message? fdisk(8) doesn't reply to this question. The strangest thing is that this message doesn't show during modification of partition table on system disk (ad0). Modification succeeds in both cases. Sincerely, Dmitry -- Atlantis ISP, System Administrator e-mail: dmitry@atlantis.dp.ua nic-hdl: LYNX-RIPE
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