GEOM and moving to CURRENT from 7.1

[Randy Bush]

installed amd64 7.1 from cdrom
partitioned two sata drives to single partitions
labeled and gmirrored

upgraded to 8-current
ad0 started falling off mirror
ad2 started reporting smart errors

and now we seem to have a partition that is too big


# atacontrol cap ad2

Protocol              Serial ATA v1.0
device model          ST3250310NS
serial number         9SF0LECT
firmware revision     SN05
cylinders             16383
heads                 16
sectors/track         63
lba supported         268435455 sectors
lba48 supported       488397168 sectors
dma supported
overlap not supported

Feature                      Support  Enable    Value           Vendor
write cache                    yes      yes
read ahead                     yes      yes
Native Command Queuing (NCQ)   yes       -      31/0x1F
Tagged Command Queuing (TCQ)   no       no      31/0x1F
SMART                          yes      yes
microcode download             yes      yes
security                       yes      no
power management               yes      yes
advanced power management      no       no      0/0x00
automatic acoustic management  no       no      0/0x00  254/0xFE

# fdisk ad2
******* Working on device /dev/ad2 *******
parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are:
cylinders=484521 heads=16 sectors/track=63 (1008 blks/cyl)

Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions not in cyl 1
parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are:
cylinders=484521 heads=16 sectors/track=63 (1008 blks/cyl)

Media sector size is 512
Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1
Information from DOS bootblock is:
The data for partition 1 is:
sysid 165 (0xa5),(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD)
     start 63, size 488397105 (238475 Meg), flag 80 (active)
         beg: cyl 0/ head 1/ sector 1;
         end: cyl 168/ head 15/ sector 63
The data for partition 2 is:
<UNUSED>
The data for partition 3 is:
<UNUSED>
The data for partition 4 is:
<UNUSED>

randy