On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 8:30 PM, Allan Jude <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2014-04-29 19:51, Sean Bruno wrote: >> Created a simple partition: >> >> root@:~ # gpart create -s gpt da11 >> da11 created >> root@:~ # gpart add -t freebsd-ufs da11 >> da11p1 added >> root@:~ # gpart show da11 >> => 40 7814037088 da11 GPT (3.6T) >> 40 7814037088 1 freebsd-ufs (3.6T) >> >> root@:~ # >> >> Then run a newfs and reboot the system. Upon reboot this is what I get? >> >> => 40 7814037088 da11 GPT (3.6T) >> 40 7814037088 1 freebsd-ufs (3.6T) >> => 40 7814037088 diskid/DISK-Z1Z0DQ73%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20% >> 20%20%20%20 GPT (3.6T) >> 40 7814037088 >> 1 freebsd-ufs (3.6T) >> >> >> What is going on here? >> >> sean >> > > That is highly unusual, does your disk have a bunch of blank spaces in > its serial # or something?
Not that unusual at all. In ATA and SCSI alike it's common for text fields to be defined as fixed length strings. I've seen many vendors pad their entries out with spaces; for some reason they're allergic to using NULLs. geom should probably be modified to strip trailing whitespace from the serial number. -Alan > > -- > Allan Jude > _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
