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Subject: Re: problem formating disk with gpart
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Warren Block writes:

>  > 	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.
>  
>  Maybe force geom retasting?
>  
>  true > /dev/ad1

	I did this.
	Afterwards, "gpart show" continues to report the 456G vaule,
not the 80G I should see.


					Robert Huff