CURRENT: [USB] : GEOM_PART: da4 was automatically resized.
Matthew Grooms
mgrooms at shrew.net
Mon Aug 1 19:00:25 UTC 2016
On 8/1/2016 12:40 PM, Randy Westlund wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 01, 2016 at 11:05:54AM +0200, O. Hartmann wrote:
>> On every(!) USB drive which worked well with 11-CURRENT up to 11-BETA, I fail
>> to access with 12-CURRENT (12.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 12.0-CURRENT #14 r303475: Fri
>> Jul 29 11:59:11 CEST 2016) with the error shown below.
>>
>> On USB flash drives I created myself, the suggested gpart command solved the
>> problem, but I can not do this with drives I was given by a vendor or supplier.
>>
>> What is wrong?
>>
>> Kind regards and thank you very much in advance,
>>
>> O. Hartmann
>>
>>
>> On console, I get the report:
>>
>> [...]
>> GEOM_PART: da4 was automatically resized.
>> Use `gpart commit da4` to save changes or `gpart undo da4` to revert them.
>
> I noticed something similar when I was trying to dd a more recent
> memstick installer to a USB drive on 12-CURRENT. When I plugged in the
> flash drive I couldn't dd to it until I noticed that message in syslog
> and ran 'gpart undo da0'. Looks like something is unhelpfully
> auto-resizing partitions.
>
Do you have growfs_enable in your rc.conf file? I think this is added to
certain flash images by default so it will automatically grow to your
device capacity. See ...
/etc/rc.d/growfs
... and ...
https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-rc/2014-May/003497.html
-Matthew
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