clear metadata using dd?

[Pawel Jakub Dawidek]

On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 11:13:15PM -0300, Fernan Aguero wrote:
> On 1/8/07, Gary Palmer <gpalmer at freebsd.org> wrote:
> >On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 07:45:06PM -0300, Fernan Aguero wrote:
> 
> [snipped]
> 
> >> gama# gstripe label -v gs0 /dev/ad4s3 /dev/ad6s3
> >> Can't store metadata on /dev/ad4s3: Operation not permitted.
> >>
> >> This might be because ad4s3 had been part of a gmirror device before I
> >> reorganized my disks and moved the mirror to the s2 slice.
> 
> [snipped]
> 
> >Any reason that "gstripe clear" or "gmirror clear" doesn't work?  Thats what
> >they're meant to do, as far as I know.
> 
> because ad4s3 is no longer part of gm0?

You get "Operation not permitted." because someone already keep ad4s3
open for writing. Could you send output of 'sysctl -b kern.geom.confxml'
so we can find out who?

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