From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 1 00:01:30 2011 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 F35AE1065677 for ; Thu, 1 Dec 2011 00:01:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ml@my.gd) Received: from mail-bw0-f54.google.com (mail-bw0-f54.google.com [209.85.214.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 759D98FC14 for ; Thu, 1 Dec 2011 00:01:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bkat2 with SMTP id t2so1500675bka.13 for ; Wed, 30 Nov 2011 16:01:29 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.204.10.81 with SMTP id o17mr4505203bko.65.1322697689028; Wed, 30 Nov 2011 16:01:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from dfleuriot.local (angel.c-mal.com. [82.241.189.111]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id e18sm7418076bkr.15.2011.11.30.16.01.24 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Wed, 30 Nov 2011 16:01:24 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4ED6C3D2.50607@my.gd> Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2011 01:01:22 +0100 From: Damien Fleuriot User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:8.0) Gecko/20111105 Thunderbird/8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Robert Huff References: <20182.39340.354254.608836@jerusalem.litteratus.org> <4ED69F39.90203@my.gd> <20182.44577.534812.330162@jerusalem.litteratus.org> In-Reply-To: <20182.44577.534812.330162@jerusalem.litteratus.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org" Subject: Re: problem formating disk with gpart 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: Thu, 01 Dec 2011 00:01:31 -0000 On 11/30/11 11:28 PM, Robert Huff wrote: > > Damien Fleuriot writes: > >> >>> 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 > > gpart: device not configured > > However: > >>> ls -al /dev/ad1* > crw-r----- 1 root operator 0, 80 Nov 30 15:39 /dev/ad1 > crw-r----- 1 root operator 0, 96 Nov 27 17:58 /dev/ad10 > crw-r----- 1 root operator 0, 102 Nov 27 17:58 /dev/ad10p1 > crw-r----- 1 root operator 0, 103 Nov 27 12:58 /dev/ad10p2 > I have no trouble setting the sysctl here: mybsd root /usr/src/sbin/sysctl # sysctl kern.geom.debugflags=17 kern.geom.debugflags: 0 -> 17 mybsd root /usr/src/sbin/sysctl # sysctl kern.geom.debugflags=0 kern.geom.debugflags: 17 -> 0 mybsd root /usr/src/sbin/sysctl # kldstat Id Refs Address Size Name 1 19 0xffffffff80100000 93db60 kernel 2 1 0xffffffff80a3e000 bcc0 geom_label.ko 3 1 0xffffffff80a4a000 210c8 geom_mirror.ko 4 1 0xffffffff80a6c000 f060 aio.ko 5 1 0xffffffff80c12000 132008 zfs.ko 6 1 0xffffffff80d45000 f489 krpc.ko 7 1 0xffffffff80d55000 1ff1 opensolaris.ko 8 1 0xffffffff80d57000 22f1 ums.ko Please post: - kldstat - kldstat -v | grep g_part If appropriate, kldload the geom_label module , just in case, although I don't think this should be related.