Invalid fdisk partition table found

Julian H. Stacey jhs at berklix.com
Wed Nov 23 22:58:00 UTC 2011


Hi,
Reference:
> From:		Carl Johnson <carlj at peak.org> 
> Date:		Wed, 23 Nov 2011 14:53:41 -0800 
> Message-id:	<87bos2e9hm.fsf at oak.localnet> 

Carl Johnson wrote:
> "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs at berklix.com> writes:
> 
> >
> > @ suggestions:
> > 1 Try
> > 	bsdlabel -B -w -r /dev/da1
> > 	echo unplug, reinsert
> > 	newfs /dev/da1a
> >
> > 2 Base of _my_ man fdisk
> > "     When running multi user, you cannot write unless you first run this:
> >      sysctl kern.geom.debugflags=16
> > "
> >
> > It looks like I never got round to sending in a send-pr for that, so feel free
> > looks like its been that way at least since 7.1.see
> > http://berklix.com/~jhs/src/bsd/fixes/FreeBSD/src/gen/sbin/fdisk/
> 
> I thought I had seen a mention of that somewhere, so I grep'ed the man
> pages.  I found hints on geom(4) and boot0cfg(8), but they certainly
> aren't obvious.

Yup, bit me too long ago, presumably from my patch, bit me at 7.1

OK I'll bung in a quick send-pr

Cheers,
Julian
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