Size of metadate?

[Arne Wörner]

--- Nico -telmich- Schottelius <nico-freebsd-geom at schottelius.org> wrote:
> > Is it possible, that amrd0 (or a partition/slice of it) is mounted
> > somewhere?
> 
> Yes:
> 
> ddna045# mount
> /dev/amrd0s1a on / (ufs, local)
>
Then unmount it... :-)

> >   sysctl kern.geom.debugflags=16
> >   dd of=/dev/amrd0 if=/dev/zero bs=512 skip=286746623 count=1
> > [...]
> 
> I am currently trying that: top reports that dd now uses 99% cpu and it
> is running for about 3 minutes.
> 
> I am wondering how long this may run?
> 
Ohoh...

It skips block from the input device...
But it will not seek in the output device...

SO: TERMINATE IT!!! :-))
Or ur first sector on amrd0 will be destroyed FOREVER...!

Sorry!

-Arne


 
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