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Subject: Re: Make FreeBSD read the slice table and partition table again
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On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 2:16 PM, Bahman Kahinpour <bahman.linux@gmail.com>wrote:

> Hello
> When I destroy the partition table with the following command:
> # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ad1 bs=1k count=10
> The entries /dev/ad1s1a, ... still exist in /dev. This means that the
> kernel has not found out that the slices and partitions do not exist
> anymore.
>

Um AFAIK, GEOM tastes the provider on closing so that command should have
updated the device entries.  And it works properly in VM here so I'm unsure
the problem you are having.

A "true > /dev/ad1" would also cause GEOM to retaste it.

-- 
Adam Vande More