Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2002 01:30:03 -0700 (PDT) From: "Crist J. Clark" <crist.clark@attbi.com> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: bin/24435: Changing slice type causes Auto-partition to not work Message-ID: <200207140830.g6E8U3IN060867@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR bin/24435; it has been noted by GNATS. From: "Crist J. Clark" <crist.clark@attbi.com> To: Steve Mazerski <smazerski@yahoo.co.jp> Cc: bug-followup@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bin/24435: Changing slice type causes Auto-partition to not work Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2002 01:21:31 -0700 On Sat, Jul 13, 2002 at 03:30:03PM -0700, Steve Mazerski wrote: > The following reply was made to PR bin/24435; it has been noted by GNATS. > > From: Steve Mazerski <smazerski@yahoo.co.jp> > To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org > Cc: rwatson@FreeBSD.org > Subject: Re: bin/24435: Changing slice type causes Auto-partition to not work > Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2002 00:22:37 +0200 > > This email submitted to the "Submit Followup" link on: > > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=3Dbin%2F24435 > > I have experienced the same problem with 4.6-RELEASE > while attempting to rededicate a Linux ext2fs partition > as a FreeBSD slice. > > Despite having changed the partition type to FreeBSD, > in the partition allocation screen any attempt to > create a partition produced the error message > > Unable to create the partition. Too big? Did you reboot? I believe that once the kernel loads up it's idea of a slice table, it doesn't change even though you _do_ change the table on the disk. That would still be a bug tho'. -- Crist J. Clark | cjclark@alum.mit.edu | cjclark@jhu.edu http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/ | cjc@freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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