aliasing (or renaming) kern.geom.debugflags

Poul-Henning Kamp phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Fri Oct 7 19:18:59 UTC 2011


In message <CAGH67wQk0jR+uk0oFO7Ye001vd-0UgcY-bf+84a8=9WtLHg+1Q at mail.gmail.com>
, Garrett Cooper writes:

>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.

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