Large filesystem woes

[dpk]

On Fri, 29 Jul 2005, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:

> It won't wipe away the table.  It will just let you edit the existing
> table interactively, through a series of questions like:
>
> 	- Do you want to edit partition 1?
> 	- Do you want to edit partition 2?
> 	- Do you want to edit partition 3?
> 	- Do you want to edit partition 4?
> 	- Do you want to change the active partition?
> 	- Do you want to save your changes to the disk?

# df -k
Filesystem  1K-blocks    Used    Avail Capacity  Mounted on
/dev/da0s1a  35082074 1147642 31127868     4%    /
devfs               1       1        0   100%    /dev
procfs              4       4        0   100%    /proc
# fdisk -u
fdisk: cannot open disk /dev/da0: No such file or directory
# ls -ald /dev/da0*
crw-r-----  1 root  operator    4,  12 Jul 28 15:56 /dev/da0
crw-r-----  1 root  operator    4,  13 Jul 28 15:56 /dev/da0s1
crw-r-----  1 root  operator    4,  18 Jul 28 08:56 /dev/da0s1a
crw-r-----  1 root  operator    4,  19 Jul 28 15:56 /dev/da0s1b
crw-r-----  1 root  operator    4,  20 Jul 28 15:56 /dev/da0s1c

truss indicates that fdisk may be getting the error from somewhere else:

stat("/dev/da0",0xbfbfeb30)                      = 0 (0x0)
open("/dev/da0",0x2,00)                          ERR#1 'Operation not permitted'
open("/dev/da0",0x0,027757765630)                = 6 (0x6)
open("/dev/da0s1",0x2,01001210100)               ERR#1 'Operation not permitted'
open("/dev/da0s2",0x2,01001210100)               ERR#2 'No such file or directory'
open("/dev/da0s3",0x2,01001210100)               ERR#2 'No such file or directory'
open("/dev/da0s4",0x2,01001210100)               ERR#2 'No such file or directory'

Because it is using devfs, I'm not able to create these missing slices in
/dev. Most unfortunately, it appears it uses devfs in single user mode as
well, so I can't test the theory.