From owner-freebsd-bugs Sun Jul 14 1:30: 8 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@hub.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DAEDC37B401 for ; Sun, 14 Jul 2002 01:30:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.21]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E72BC43E72 for ; Sun, 14 Jul 2002 01:30:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (gnats@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.12.4/8.12.4) with ESMTP id g6E8U3JU060868 for ; Sun, 14 Jul 2002 01:30:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnats@freefall.freebsd.org) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.12.4/8.12.4/Submit) id g6E8U3IN060867; Sun, 14 Jul 2002 01:30:03 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2002 01:30:03 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200207140830.g6E8U3IN060867@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Cc: From: "Crist J. Clark" Subject: Re: bin/24435: Changing slice type causes Auto-partition to not work Reply-To: "Crist J. Clark" Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The following reply was made to PR bin/24435; it has been noted by GNATS. From: "Crist J. Clark" To: Steve Mazerski Cc: bug-followup@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bin/24435: Changing slice type causes Auto-partition to not work Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2002 01:21:31 -0700 On Sat, Jul 13, 2002 at 03:30:03PM -0700, Steve Mazerski wrote: > The following reply was made to PR bin/24435; it has been noted by GNATS. > > From: Steve Mazerski > To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org > Cc: rwatson@FreeBSD.org > Subject: Re: bin/24435: Changing slice type causes Auto-partition to not work > Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2002 00:22:37 +0200 > > This email submitted to the "Submit Followup" link on: > > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=3Dbin%2F24435 > > I have experienced the same problem with 4.6-RELEASE > while attempting to rededicate a Linux ext2fs partition > as a FreeBSD slice. > > Despite having changed the partition type to FreeBSD, > in the partition allocation screen any attempt to > create a partition produced the error message > > Unable to create the partition. Too big? Did you reboot? I believe that once the kernel loads up it's idea of a slice table, it doesn't change even though you _do_ change the table on the disk. That would still be a bug tho'. -- Crist J. Clark | cjclark@alum.mit.edu | cjclark@jhu.edu http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/ | cjc@freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message