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Date:      Tue, 4 Feb 2003 18:49:24 -0500
From:      Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>
To:        phk@freebsd.org
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Minor oddity with sysinstall/disklabel on -current
Message-ID:  <p05200f5dba6601734431@[128.113.24.47]>
In-Reply-To: <17774.1044345863@critter.freebsd.dk>
References:  <17774.1044345863@critter.freebsd.dk>

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At 9:04 AM +0100 2/4/03, phk@freebsd.org wrote:
>Garance A Drosihn writes:
>  > I drop out of sysinstall, do some things with that partition, and
>>  then decide to redo the above sequence.  Everything has been working
>>  fine, but I'm just testing some things and I end up in a position
>>  where it's quicker to newfs the partition than it is to 'rm' the
>  > files on it.  So, I do the same exact sequence (starting with the
>>  'umount' before running sysinstall), and this time when I do the
>>  'w'rite, I am told:
>>
>>           ERROR: Unable to write data to disk ad2!
>
>My guess is that sysinstall (bogusly) did a swapon for the 'b'
>parititon on your ad2 disk.

It occurs to me that I can now easily test this by doing a swapoff
command for /dev/ad2s1b.  And indeed, if I do that before the second
run of sysinstall, everything works fine on the second trip through.

-- 
Garance Alistair Drosehn            =   gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer           or  gad@freebsd.org
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute    or  drosih@rpi.edu

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