gpart cannot find ada0

[dave jones]

On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 9:29 PM, Ivan Voras  wrote:
> On 13 September 2010 03:38, dave jones  wrote:
>> On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 5:46 PM, Ivan Voras  wrote:
>>> On 09/10/10 04:50, dave jones wrote:
>>>
>>>> Ok, in /boot/loader.conf, I have added the following:
>>>
>>>> geom_mbr_load="YES"
>>>
>>> Remove this line and report what happens then.
>>
>> It seems that works after removing that line:
>>
>> # gpart show ada0
>> =>       63  126189504  ada0  MBR  (60G)
>>         63   81919089     1  freebsd  [active]  (39G)
>>   81919152   44255358     2  !12  (21G)
>>  126174510      15057        - free -  (7.4M)
>>
>> Does that mean that module should not be included?
>
> Yes.

Ok. I'm still wondering why geom_mbr should not be included
in /boot/loader.conf. Would you tell me why? Thanks.

>> I need geom_mbr module due to my some of usb thumb
>> drivers.
>
> Why? What doesn't work if you don't have it?

When I plug a usb thumb drive, there's no /dev/da0s1device node.
If I load  geom_mbr.ko, then /dev/da0s1 appears.

Regards,
Dave.