issues with geom and adding disks

[David Cecil]

ext Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
> "Dave" <dmehler26 at woh.rr.com> writes:
>   
>> That worked fine. My problem came with fdisk. I used:
>>
>> fdisk -BI ad6
>>
>> and i got the message:
>>
>> Invalid partition table
>> geom not found.
>>     
>
> It says "invalid partition table" because there is no pre-existing
> partition table on the disk.  This will not show up again if you run
> 'fdisk -I ad6' a second time.
>
> I don't know what "Geom not found" comes from (a bug in either fdisk
> or libgeom?) but it seems to be harmless as well; fdisk ignores the
> error and goes on to write the updated MBR to the disk.
>   

I tracked this down at one point and yes, it is harmless.  If I recall 
correctly, it's due to there being no partition table.  My memory for 
such things isn't the best though...

Regards,
Dave