Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2011 07:48:03 -0500 From: Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com> To: Damien Fleuriot <ml@my.gd> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: problem formating disk with gpart Message-ID: <20183.30595.288219.914337@jerusalem.litteratus.org> In-Reply-To: <4ED72693.1000000@my.gd> References: <20182.39340.354254.608836@jerusalem.litteratus.org> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1111301706310.3692@wonkity.com> <20182.63924.526118.602623@jerusalem.litteratus.org> <4ED6FACF.1070908@my.gd> <20183.1695.842480.706095@jerusalem.litteratus.org> <4ED72693.1000000@my.gd>
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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
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