Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2016 13:55:13 -0500 From: Matthew Grooms <mgrooms@shrew.net> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CURRENT: [USB] : GEOM_PART: da4 was automatically resized. Message-ID: <0b4f142a-7c44-832d-5fe2-c2a6264383cc@shrew.net> In-Reply-To: <20160801174035.GI74453@gmail.com> References: <20160801110554.289d040d@freyja.zeit4.iv.bundesimmobilien.de> <20160801174035.GI74453@gmail.com>
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On 8/1/2016 12:40 PM, Randy Westlund wrote: > On Mon, Aug 01, 2016 at 11:05:54AM +0200, O. Hartmann wrote: >> On every(!) USB drive which worked well with 11-CURRENT up to 11-BETA, I fail >> to access with 12-CURRENT (12.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 12.0-CURRENT #14 r303475: Fri >> Jul 29 11:59:11 CEST 2016) with the error shown below. >> >> On USB flash drives I created myself, the suggested gpart command solved the >> problem, but I can not do this with drives I was given by a vendor or supplier. >> >> What is wrong? >> >> Kind regards and thank you very much in advance, >> >> O. Hartmann >> >> >> On console, I get the report: >> >> [...] >> GEOM_PART: da4 was automatically resized. >> Use `gpart commit da4` to save changes or `gpart undo da4` to revert them. > > I noticed something similar when I was trying to dd a more recent > memstick installer to a USB drive on 12-CURRENT. When I plugged in the > flash drive I couldn't dd to it until I noticed that message in syslog > and ran 'gpart undo da0'. Looks like something is unhelpfully > auto-resizing partitions. > Do you have growfs_enable in your rc.conf file? I think this is added to certain flash images by default so it will automatically grow to your device capacity. See ... /etc/rc.d/growfs ... and ... https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-rc/2014-May/003497.html -Matthew
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