Date: Sat, 16 May 2015 15:44:29 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> To: Ian Smith <smithi@nimnet.asn.au> Cc: Avinash Sonawane <rootkea@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Swap partition for FreeBSD Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.20.1505161537100.49435@wonkity.com> In-Reply-To: <20150517010804.E69409@sola.nimnet.asn.au> References: <mailman.65.1431777601.2454.freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> <20150517010804.E69409@sola.nimnet.asn.au>
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On Sun, 17 May 2015, Ian Smith wrote: > In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 571, Issue 6 > On Sat, 16 May 2015 15:16:56 +0530 Avinash Sonawane <rootkea@gmail.com> wrote: > > Avinash, I'm cutting various bits out of this digest, because I can :) > > In response to Matthew Seaman <matthew@freebsd.org> you wrote: > > > When I tried to delete the said partition from freebsd as `gpart > > delete -i 2878773 ada0s4` it says "gpart: pre-check failed: Operation > > -i there shouldn't be a block number, from my reading of gpart(8) on > 9.3, but I'm not sure how exactly delete ada0s6 should be crafted, if > it's possible with your kernel as is (below). (yoo hoo, Warren!) The -i value is the partition number from the list shown by 'gpart show ada0s4'. I think it is in the third column. I admit to not having used extended DOS partitions from gpart, and in fact until now had successfully suppressed the memory of their existence.
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