Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2008 12:23:48 -0700 From: Marcel Moolenaar <xcllnt@mac.com> To: Ulf Lilleengen <lulf@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-geom@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: bin/90093: fdisk(8) incapable of altering in-core geometry Message-ID: <FC600952-A8A7-4AE7-9790-0775AF6138DC@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <200807271910.m6RJA9qB060568@freefall.freebsd.org> References: <200807271910.m6RJA9qB060568@freefall.freebsd.org>
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On Jul 27, 2008, at 12:10 PM, Ulf Lilleengen wrote: > AFAICT, the fdisk code skips to using pwrite to write the MBR if the > MBR GEOM > class fails (which it will do if an MBR does not exist), and should > update > the MBR info correctly anyway. I was however unsuccessful altering the > geometry even with this patch. But the warning printed when geom_mbr > fails is > a bit confusing, since the write request might be successful anyway, > so we > should either just quell the warning, or make using geom_mbr work. Would you mind testing gpart? Just remove GEOM_MBR from your kernel (i.e. add nooption GEOM_MBR) and add options GEOM_PART_MBR instead. -- Marcel Moolenaar xcllnt@mac.com
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