Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2011 22:25:13 +0100 From: Damien Fleuriot <ml@my.gd> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: problem formating disk with gpart Message-ID: <4ED69F39.90203@my.gd> In-Reply-To: <20182.39340.354254.608836@jerusalem.litteratus.org> References: <20182.39340.354254.608836@jerusalem.litteratus.org>
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On 11/30/11 10:01 PM, Robert Huff wrote: > > One of my systems has a hot-swap eSATA device, which reports as > "ad1". I'm trying to use this to prepare a new disk using gpart and > something (possibly my understanding) is broken. > After removing another disk and inserting the new one, I do: > >>> gpart show ad1 > => 34 976773101 ad1 GPT (465G) > 34 976773101 - free - (465G) > > ... which is the value for the disk just removed. > If I do (to start clean): > >>> gpart destroy ad1 > gpart destroy ad1 > gpart: Input/output error > > Huh? > Huh indeed. Please toggle GEOM debug and try again: sysctl kern.geom.debugflags=17
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