partitioning and labeling geom devices

[Pawel Jakub Dawidek]

On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 10:06:16AM +0100, Shaun Jurrens wrote:
+> On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 09:33:14PM +0100, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote:
+> #> On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 10:42:12AM -0800, Brooks Davis wrote:
+> #> +> > 	Argument "*" isn't numeric in subtraction (-) at /usr/local/sbin/diskprep
+> #> +> > 	line 232.
+> #> +> > 	disklabel: /dev/stripe/stripe0s1: No such file or directory
+> #> 
+> #> This could be problem with bsdlabel(8) which was fixed some time ago.
+> 
+> 	FreeBSD paracles 5.3-STABLE FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE #2: Tue Jan 11 11:48:08
+> 	CET 2005     root at paracles:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/PARACLES  i386
+> 
+> 	paracles:/root#> disklabel stripe/stripe0s1
+> 	disklabel: /dev/stripe/stripe0s1: No such file or directory
+> 
+> 	paracles:/root#> ll /dev/stripe/.
+> 	total 0
+> 	crw-r-----  1 root  operator    4,  40 Jan 17 17:55 stripe0
+> 
+> 	There just isn't anything there to label.  There's something here
+> after fdisk that is missing (at least in the traditional sense) and that is
+> the slices. [...]

Simply calling: fdisk -I /dev/stripe/stripe0 doesn't create
provider /dev/stripe/stripe0s1?

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Pawel Jakub Dawidek                       http://www.wheel.pl
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