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Date:      Tue, 16 Jul 2013 13:57:06 -0700
From:      aurfalien <aurfalien@gmail.com>
To:        Michael Sierchio <kudzu@tenebras.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: gpart: table 'da0' is corrupt; operation not permitted
Message-ID:  <CB03CFAC-6F82-46B0-B456-E81E45A4F4AB@gmail.com>
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On Jul 16, 2013, at 1:50 PM, Michael Sierchio wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 1:44 PM, aurfalien <aurfalien@gmail.com> =
wrote:
>=20
>> Upon doing;
>>=20
>> gpart destroy da0
>>=20
>> I get;
>>=20
>> gpart: Device busy
>=20
> crude but effective:
>=20
>=20
> DISK=3Dda0
>=20
> offset=3D`diskinfo $DISK | awk '{ print $4 - 131072 }'`
> dd if=3D/dev/zero of=3D/dev/$DISK bs=3D64k count=3D1
> dd if=3D/dev/zero of=3D/dev/$DISK bs=3D64k seek=3D$offset
>=20
> gpart create -s gpt ${DISK}

This is what I ended up doing.

I unplugged it, waited a few, re plugged and then I was able to =
delete/destroy.

I will keep your method on hand though as I prefer not doing a hot plug.

- aurf=



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