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From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>
To: Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com>
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Subject: Re: problem formating disk with gpart
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On Wed, 30 Nov 2011, Robert Huff wrote:

>
> 	One of my systems has a hot-swap eSATA device, which reports as
> "ad1".  I'm trying to use this to prepare a new disk using gpart and
> something (possibly my understanding) is broken.
> 	After removing another disk and inserting the new one, I do:
>
>>> gpart show ad1
> =>       34  976773101  ad1  GPT  (465G)
>         34  976773101       - free -  (465G)
>
> 	... which is the value for the disk just removed.

Maybe force geom retasting?

true > /dev/ad1