Getting useful diagnostics from geom(8) and friends
Garrett Cooper
yanefbsd at gmail.com
Fri May 28 08:42:08 UTC 2010
On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 12:15 AM, Andriy Gapon <avg at icyb.net.ua> wrote:
> on 28/05/2010 00:48 Garrett Cooper said the following:
>> Hi again geom folks,
>> I tried executing the following commands in a script to create a
>> clean MBR partition and it's not clear to me where I'm messing up with
>> the process in the first step:
>>
>> % gpart add -b 34 -s 128 -t freebsd ad4 # exits with a non-zero code
>> gpart: 22 geom 'ad4'
>>
>> % gpart create -s MBR ad4
>> gpart: 22 scheme 'MBR'
>
> What version of FreeBSD is this?
> I get much friendlier diagnostics on head and stable/8.
It's 7.1-PRERELEASE.
The issue was that the support for geom labels and the proper
partitioning formats were omitted by another engineer in my team, and
unfortunately I didn't think twice to check the KERNCONF.
Thanks,
-Garrett
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