Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2014 20:43:01 -0700 From: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Cc: Alan Somers <asomers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: What on earth is all this %20 crap at the end of the GUID? (newfs?) Message-ID: <2756866.9v4nBk6Ejz@overcee.wemm.org> In-Reply-To: <CAOtMX2gHZBJDkS70ruNgDHsbGnEQKuwUCh9pCwATaPvNzkZaXA@mail.gmail.com> References: <1398815513.2019.50.camel@powernoodle.corp.yahoo.com> <5360605B.80605@allanjude.com> <CAOtMX2gHZBJDkS70ruNgDHsbGnEQKuwUCh9pCwATaPvNzkZaXA@mail.gmail.com>
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--nextPart16081763.4JjPVUcFAI Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" On Tuesday 29 April 2014 20:52:30 Alan Somers wrote: > On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 8:30 PM, Allan Jude <freebsd@allanjude.com> w= rote: > > On 2014-04-29 19:51, Sean Bruno wrote: > >> Created a simple partition: > >> root@:~ # gpart create -s gpt da11 > >>=20 > >> da11 created > >> root@:~ # gpart add -t freebsd-ufs da11 > >> da11p1 added > >> root@:~ # gpart show da11 > >> =3D> 40 7814037088 da11 GPT (3.6T) > >>=20 > >> 40 7814037088 1 freebsd-ufs (3.6T) > >>=20 > >> root@:~ # > >>=20 > >> Then run a newfs and reboot the system. Upon reboot this is what = I get? > >>=20 > >> =3D> 40 7814037088 da11 GPT (3.6T) > >>=20 > >> 40 7814037088 1 freebsd-ufs (3.6T) > >>=20 > >> =3D> 40 7814037088 diskid/DISK-Z1Z0DQ73%20%20%20%20%20%20= %20%20% > >> 20%20%20%20 GPT (3.6T) > >>=20 > >> 40 7814037088 > >>=20 > >> 1 freebsd-ufs (3.6T) > >>=20 > >>=20 > >> What is going on here? > >>=20 > >> sean > >=20 > > That is highly unusual, does your disk have a bunch of blank spaces= in > > its serial # or something? >=20 > Not that unusual at all. In ATA and SCSI alike it's common for text > fields to be defined as fixed length strings. I've seen many vendors= > pad their entries out with spaces; for some reason they're allergic t= o > using NULLs. geom should probably be modified to strip trailing > whitespace from the serial number. In this particular case, it's a modified ciss driver. If memory serves= , ciss=20 pads its cam ident strings with spaces and that's showing up here. FWIW, this is usually why I rm -rf /dev/gptid /dev/diskid before doing = an=20 import. I don't usually want the synthetic names in there. =2DPeter =2D-=20 Peter Wemm - peter@wemm.org; peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com; KI= 6FJV UTF-8: for when a ' just won\342\200\231t do. --nextPart16081763.4JjPVUcFAI Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (FreeBSD) iEYEABECAAYFAlNgcU0ACgkQFRKuUnJ3cX+qoACgnxHQ3lMxQHAAaQRpxD0mDx4c btQAn3Y8UgOA0nGBefiycGPilP5ShTmw =xdbC -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart16081763.4JjPVUcFAI--
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