From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 1 12:48:08 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC641106566C for ; Thu, 1 Dec 2011 12:48:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from roberthuff@rcn.com) Received: from smtp02.lnh.mail.rcn.net (smtp02.lnh.mail.rcn.net [207.172.157.102]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 53CA98FC13 for ; Thu, 1 Dec 2011 12:48:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mr17.lnh.mail.rcn.net ([207.172.157.37]) by smtp02.lnh.mail.rcn.net with ESMTP; 01 Dec 2011 07:48:07 -0500 Received: from smtp01.lnh.mail.rcn.net (smtp01.lnh.mail.rcn.net [207.172.4.11]) by mr17.lnh.mail.rcn.net (MOS 4.3.3-GA) with ESMTP id BFC95863; Thu, 1 Dec 2011 07:48:07 -0500 Received-SPF: None identity=pra; client-ip=209.6.86.84; receiver=smtp01.lnh.mail.rcn.net; envelope-from="roberthuff@rcn.com"; x-sender="roberthuff@rcn.com"; x-conformance=sidf_compatible Received-SPF: None identity=mailfrom; client-ip=209.6.86.84; receiver=smtp01.lnh.mail.rcn.net; envelope-from="roberthuff@rcn.com"; x-sender="roberthuff@rcn.com"; x-conformance=sidf_compatible Received-SPF: None identity=helo; client-ip=209.6.86.84; receiver=smtp01.lnh.mail.rcn.net; envelope-from="roberthuff@rcn.com"; x-sender="postmaster@jerusalem.litteratus.org.litteratus.org"; x-conformance=sidf_compatible Received: from 209-6-86-84.c3-0.smr-ubr2.sbo-smr.ma.cable.rcn.com (HELO jerusalem.litteratus.org.litteratus.org) ([209.6.86.84]) by smtp01.lnh.mail.rcn.net with ESMTP; 01 Dec 2011 07:48:06 -0500 From: Robert Huff MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <20183.30595.288219.914337@jerusalem.litteratus.org> Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2011 07:48:03 -0500 To: Damien Fleuriot In-Reply-To: <4ED72693.1000000@my.gd> References: <20182.39340.354254.608836@jerusalem.litteratus.org> <20182.63924.526118.602623@jerusalem.litteratus.org> <4ED6FACF.1070908@my.gd> <20183.1695.842480.706095@jerusalem.litteratus.org> <4ED72693.1000000@my.gd> X-Mailer: VM 7.17 under 21.5 (beta28) "fuki" XEmacs Lucid X-Junkmail-Whitelist: YES (by domain whitelist at mr17.lnh.mail.rcn.net) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: problem formating disk with gpart X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2011 12:48:08 -0000 Damien Fleuriot writes: > >> Try this: > >> gpart delete -i 1 > >> gpart create -s 78g -i 1 -t freebsd-ufs /dev/ad1 > > > > Done > > >>> gpart show ad1 > > => 34 976773101 ad1 GPT (465G) > > 34 163577856 1 freebsd-ufs (78G) > > 163577890 813195245 - free - (387G) > > > >> Then try to newfs -U it. > > > > Same error message as above, only with sector # 163577855. > > > > > > For the record: this is being done on: > > > > FreeBSD 9.0-BETA1 #0: Tue Aug 23 10:07:23 EDT 2011 amd64 > > > > > You may want to try on different versions to check if you have > better results: Unfortunately, not an option in my current set-up. What makes this so puzzling is I have two other GPT disks - created either with this version or one from mid-April - that got built with no problems not caused by my own ignorance. Robert Huff