gpart: table 'da0' is corrupt; operation not permitted

[aurfalien]

On Jul 16, 2013, at 1:50 PM, Michael Sierchio wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 1:44 PM, aurfalien <aurfalien at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Upon doing;
>> 
>> gpart destroy da0
>> 
>> I get;
>> 
>> gpart: Device busy
> 
> crude but effective:
> 
> 
> DISK=da0
> 
> offset=`diskinfo $DISK | awk '{ print $4 - 131072 }'`
> dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/$DISK bs=64k count=1
> dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/$DISK bs=64k seek=$offset
> 
> gpart create -s gpt ${DISK}

This is what I ended up doing.

I unplugged it, waited a few, re plugged and then I was able to delete/destroy.

I will keep your method on hand though as I prefer not doing a hot plug.

- aurf