From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Sep 20 13:43:24 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 2C818A88 for ; Sat, 20 Sep 2014 13:43:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail1.g16.pair.com (mail1.g16.pair.com [66.39.65.22]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 081EDC92 for ; Sat, 20 Sep 2014 13:43:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from atomizer (c-71-60-227-57.hsd1.pa.comcast.net [71.60.227.57]) by mail1.g16.pair.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 8C0FF5C71; Sat, 20 Sep 2014 09:43:12 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2014 09:43:11 -0400 From: Rod Person To: Warren Block Subject: Re: HELP! GEOM: ada0: the secondary GPT header is not in the last LBA Message-ID: <20140920094311.16e9725e@atomizer> In-Reply-To: References: <20140919222922.1cf95b53@atomizer> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.10.1 (GTK+ 2.24.22; amd64-portbld-freebsd10.0) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2014 13:43:24 -0000 On Sat, 20 Sep 2014 07:15:19 -0600 (MDT) Warren Block wrote: > > What happened? Was this new partition just created, and with what > tool? gpart normally will not allow creating partitions that > overlap other structures. Was dd(1) used to copy it from another > disk? > > Is there data on this new partition? > Thanks for the reply, but I was actually able to repair the partition table by using the gdisk tool, once I decided to just go for it. As far as I can figure, I had booted into Windows 7 disk that I have on this machine. I was trying to format an external drive as NTFS...something in disk manager must have screwed up the partition table, even though this is not the disk I was working on. I've had this disk for 3 or 4 years and been in 3 different machines and never had a problem with it. I think it was the 1st disk I ever used gpt and labels on - thanks to your guide! -- Rod http://www.rodperson.com He who knows himself to be one way and pretends it is another way is a thief who robs his own soul. The Mahabharata Sakuntala 25