Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2016 21:46:13 -0700 From: perryh@pluto.rain.com (Perry Hutchison) To: wblock@wonkity.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: "gpart add" falsely claiming "No space left on device" Message-ID: <57cf9b95.Zj/JGHeshaKL6Zr5%perryh@pluto.rain.com> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.20.1609060814030.1903@wonkity.com> References: <57ce6e64.EITkODjuwy6pZ4L%2B%perryh@pluto.rain.com> <alpine.BSF.2.20.1609060814030.1903@wonkity.com>
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Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> wrote: > On Tue, 6 Sep 2016, Perry Hutchison wrote: > > I copied the 10.3-RELEASE memstick.img to a 4GB flash drive, then > > used "gpart recover" to resize the partition table to the media. > > After that "gpart show" reports: > > > > # gpart show da2 > > => 3 7811067 da2 GPT (3.7G) > > 3 32 1 freebsd-boot (16K) > > 35 1348832 2 freebsd-ufs (659M) > > 1348867 2048 3 freebsd-swap (1.0M) > > 1350915 6460155 - free - (3.1G) > > > > but "gpart add" refuses to add a second freebsd-ufs partition in > > that supposedly-free space: > > > > # gpart add -t freebsd-ufs -l pkgs -f x da2 > > gpart: index '4': No space left on device > > > > # gpart add -t freebsd-ufs -l pkgs -f x -b 1350915 -s 6460155 da2 > > gpart: index '4': No space left on device > > The second one makes more sense, as the first '-f x' would/should > have allocated that space (in an uncommitted operation). Don't know > about the first one, unless you have tried it before. It gave that result the very first time, and a subsequent "gpart show" produced the same output as before. I tried the second in case the reason for the first failing was that (absent -b and -s) it defaulted to trying to define a partition covering the whole device, failing because the device was not empty. > Why bother with '-f x'? Why not just do the operation immediately? Paranoia. IIUC, uncommitted operations work for all purposes except surviving a reboot, in particular a subsequent "gpart show", but without writing anything to the stick in the (likely) event that I did something wrong that would corrupt the stick if committed. (I do not pretend to understand gpart, and I've been finding its manpage horribly terse.)home | help
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