From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Aug 14 21:35:09 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 489F910656AC for ; Sat, 14 Aug 2010 21:35:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dick@nagual.nl) Received: from mail.nagual.nl (cc535223-a.groni1.gr.home.nl [82.73.72.175]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C19598FC0A for ; Sat, 14 Aug 2010 21:35:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.11.34] [192.168.11.34] by westmark.nagual.nl (Axigen) with (AES256-SHA encrypted) ESMTPSA id 2824DA; Sat, 14 Aug 2010 23:26:53 +0200 Message-ID: <4C670C0F.8030308@nagual.nl> Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2010 23:35:11 +0200 From: Dick Hoogendijk User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; nl; rv:1.9.2.8) Gecko/20100802 Thunderbird/3.1.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-AxigenSpam-Level: 4 Subject: cg0: bad magic number X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2010 21:35:09 -0000 My 1Tb sata2 drives work very well with FreeBSD. They can be sliced, partitioned and newfs can be run. However, no matter what I try (sysinstall, gpart) when I slice my 500Gb drive and create a partition in it (1 block smaller than the slice) I can not newfs the /dev/ad8s1a It always end up with a *cg0: bad magic number* Googling I find a lot of references, but none give me the answer to my problem. All 500Gb drives can be formatted under Windows, linux (Ubuntu), Partion Magic, Solaris without errors. Alas, non of these systems supports formatting in UFS2. I need FreeBSD to do that but this fails... I'm getting quite depressed about this. Espescially because I cannot find the answer to this issue and I hate that! What on earth can it be?