Date: Fri, 07 Oct 2011 15:41:00 -0400 From: Glen Barber <gjb@FreeBSD.org> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> Cc: Garrett Cooper <yanegomi@gmail.com>, Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Benjamin Kaduk <kaduk@mit.edu>, Arnaud Lacombe <lacombar@gmail.com> Subject: Re: aliasing (or renaming) kern.geom.debugflags Message-ID: <4E8F55CC.3060302@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <81477.1318015137@critter.freebsd.dk> References: <81477.1318015137@critter.freebsd.dk>
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Hi, On 10/7/11 3:18 PM, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: >> My guess is that GEOM isn't letting go of the GPT table and you have >> multiple partitions in the GPT table and you're not destroying them >> hierarchically in a proper manner.. but again, that's just a guess >> based on hazy recollection. > > If none of the GPT partitions are open, you should be able to > open /dev/da0. If not, the GPT geom class is buggy. > In my experience, without kern.geom.debugflags=16, the MBR will not be written to the memstick, leaving you with what would effectively be a coaster in the not-so-distant past. -- Glen Barber | gjb@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD Documentation Project
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