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On 09/09/10 11:23, dave jones wrote:
> Hi Bruce,
>
> Thanks for the reply. I tried to run gpart create -s mbr ada0, I got:
> gpart: geom 'ada0': Operation not permitted

hmmm....

> Then I umount some partitions which are mounted on ada0, gpart shows partitions:

HMMMMMM.....

You did just try to erase your existing partitions on ada0 with "gpart 
create", did you? :)

> # gpart show ada0
> =>        63  126189504  ada0  MBR  (60G)
>           63   81919089     1  freebsd  [active]  (39G)
>     81919152   44255358     2  !12  (21G)
>    126174510      15057        - free -  (7.4M)
>
>
> I don't know why? Did I miss something? Would you tell me, thanks.

I think you should first send a list of changes to the kernel and loaded 
kernel modules, as it looks like you changed something. Then, send the 
output of "mount" command with the partitions mounted.