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Date:      Mon, 17 Jan 2005 21:33:14 +0100
From:      Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>
Cc:        freebsd-geom@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: partitioning and labeling geom devices
Message-ID:  <20050117203314.GA795@darkness.comp.waw.pl>
In-Reply-To: <20050117184212.GB7538@odin.ac.hmc.edu>
References:  <20050111110012.GB75478@atreides.freenix.no> <20050111161324.GA8528@odin.ac.hmc.edu> <20050117161647.GD75478@atreides.freenix.no> <20050117184212.GB7538@odin.ac.hmc.edu>

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On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 10:42:12AM -0800, Brooks Davis wrote:
+> > 	Argument "*" isn't numeric in subtraction (-) at /usr/local/sbin/diskprep
+> > 	line 232.
+> > 	disklabel: /dev/stripe/stripe0s1: No such file or directory

This could be problem with bsdlabel(8) which was fixed some time ago.

+> > 	So I could still use some suggestions... I'm not getting any wiser
+> > 	here. I have no "slice" devices or partitions.  Is this devd's fault
+> > 	or geom's ?
+> 
+> I'd guess from the errors that diskprep has a bug in the case that your
+> device is in a directory in /dev, but there could be a config bug.  I
+> don't have time or resouces to figure out which.  Rather then trying
+> your rather complicated config first, try a minimal config and see if
+> you can get that working.  You can also read the source of diskprep and
+> try to do what it is attempting to do by hand to see where things work
+> and where things don't.
+> 
+> -- Brooks

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Pawel Jakub Dawidek                       http://www.wheel.pl
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