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Date:      Thu, 17 Nov 2011 10:14:40 -0500
From:      Justin Hibbits <jrh29@alumni.cwru.edu>
To:        "Andrey V. Elsukov" <ae@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@freebsd.org>, freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: IBook G4 and FreeBSD 9.0-RC2: unable to create four slices on hard drive?
Message-ID:  <CAHSQbTBo43yL8ShwUDS893tztHeBJFPpP62erUiHSE2Ui28ypQ@mail.gmail.com>
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References:  <20111116224604.6403be5a.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> <4EC4D537.4050704@FreeBSD.org> <20111117124742.50779e7a.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> <4EC4F868.9020901@FreeBSD.org>

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2011/11/17 Andrey V. Elsukov <ae@freebsd.org>

> On 17.11.2011 15:47, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote:
> > On Thu, 17 Nov 2011 13:34:47 +0400
> > "Andrey V. Elsukov" <ae@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> >
> >> On 17.11.2011 1:46, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote:
> >>> As you can see, the drive is APM partitioned, and there is 16 G of
> free space on it.
> >>> g-ibook# gpart add -s 2G -t freebsd-swap ada0
> >>> gpart: index '4': No space left on device
> >>
> >> Can you show the output of `gpart list ada0`?
> >
> > Sure:
> > root@kg-ibook# gpart list ada0
> > Geom name: ada0
> > modified: false
> > state: OK
> > fwheads: 16
> > fwsectors: 63
> > last: 117210239
> > first: 5
> > entries: 3
>           ^^^ - this is why you get this error.
>
> This information is from the metadata.
> I'm not familiar with APM partition table, but may be Marcel can suggest
> something?
>
> --
> WBR, Andrey V. Elsukov
>
>
Try recreating the partition table with geom.  APM will create a partition
table 'partition' big enough to hold (N round 4) partitions, so you'll need
to tell it you want to create 8 partitions, or more than that.

- Justin



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