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Subject: Re: Getting useful diagnostics from geom(8) and friends
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on 28/05/2010 00:48 Garrett Cooper said the following:
> Hi again geom folks,
>      I tried executing the following commands in a script to create a
> clean MBR partition and it's not clear to me where I'm messing up with
> the process in the first step:
> 
> % gpart add -b 34 -s 128 -t freebsd ad4 # exits with a non-zero code
> gpart: 22 geom 'ad4'
> 
> % gpart create -s MBR ad4
> gpart: 22 scheme 'MBR'

What version of FreeBSD is this?
I get much friendlier diagnostics on head and stable/8.

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Andriy Gapon