HEADS UP: device name checking on device registration

Jaakko Heinonen jh at FreeBSD.org
Tue Oct 12 08:17:49 UTC 2010


On 2010-10-11, barbara wrote:
> The panic is caused by:
> g_dev_taste(): make_dev_p() failed (gp->name=ext2fs//, error=22)
> as I have a linux partition (I swear, it's for my mom!) on the same machine.
> As I don't care about that partition (being ext4 I can't even mount
> it), is there any solution other then applying the patch after every
> csup?

If you don't need ext2fs labels you can put the following line to
/boot/loader.conf as a workaround:

kern.geom.label.ext2fs.enable=0

-- 
Jaakko


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