problem formating disk with gpart

[Damien Fleuriot]

On 12/1/11 4:51 AM, Robert Huff wrote:
> 
> 	I'm not sure how, but I have achieved this:
> 
>>> gpart show ad1
> =>       34  976773101  ad1  GPT  (465G)
>          34  976773101    1  freebsd-ufs  (465G)
> 
> 	... which is correct, except for the size.
> 	I have a new problem:
> 
>>> newfs /dev/ad1p1
> newfs: wtfs: 512 bytes at sector 976773100: Input/output error
> 

You're trying to create a 460gb file system on a 80gb drive.

When newfs reaches the drive's boundary and attempts to write to the
next sector, it tries to divide by 0 and gets slapped back 9000 years in
time by Chuck Norris.



Try this:
gpart delete -i 1
gpart create -s 78g -i 1 -t freebsd-ufs /dev/ad1

Then try to newfs -U it.