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Cc: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org>,
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Subject: Re: Large filesystem woes
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On Thu, 28 Jul 2005, dpk wrote:

> truss indicates that fdisk may be getting the error from somewhere else:
>
> stat("/dev/da0",0xbfbfeb30)                      = 0 (0x0)
> open("/dev/da0",0x2,00)                          ERR#1 'Operation not permitted'
> open("/dev/da0",0x0,027757765630)                = 6 (0x6)
> open("/dev/da0s1",0x2,01001210100)               ERR#1 'Operation not permitted'
> open("/dev/da0s2",0x2,01001210100)               ERR#2 'No such file or directory'
> open("/dev/da0s3",0x2,01001210100)               ERR#2 'No such file or directory'
> open("/dev/da0s4",0x2,01001210100)               ERR#2 'No such file or directory'
>
> Because it is using devfs, I'm not able to create these missing slices in
> /dev. Most unfortunately, it appears it uses devfs in single user mode as
> well, so I can't test the theory.

Under a chrooted shell, I created the s1-4 /dev entries. fdisk -u now
reports 'Device not configured', which supports the theory that fdisk is
just using whatever error it last sees and gives up.