On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 8:44 PM, Warren Block <wbl...@wonkity.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 4 Jan 2011, Chris Brennan wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 3:56 AM, Ian Smith <smi...@nimnet.asn.au> wrote: >> >> On Mon, 3 Jan 2011 16:31:17 -0500, Chris Brennan wrote: >>> [.. trimming ccs, selectively quoting and de-gmailing a bit ..] >>> >>> >> Trimmings! Oh nevermind. I don't know what possessed me to go and look >> at the debug window. But I do and I see the following. >> >> GEOM: ad4: the primary GPT table is corrupt or invalid. >> GEOM: ad4: using the secondary instead -- recovery strongly advised. >> >> This is even after zero the beginning and the end of the drive .... >> Something is hinky! >> > > Today I also found that zeroing the beginning and end of the drive didn't > seem to be enough. I had the start of a huffy email about how hard it was > to calculate the end of a drive in blocks, and how dd didn't have a negative > oseek to seek backwards from the end. But then I checked gpart(8)... and it > turns out that > > # gpart destroy -F da0 > > works. Be very careful that you've got the right drive there, of course. > Fixit# gpart destroy -F /dev/node# says gpart: illegal option -- F it would appear that the gpart on the 8.1-RELEASE and 8.2BETA1 images do not contain this switch and I get pattern not found when I search 'man 8 gpart' ... there is a '-f flags' but no mention of '-F' C- _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
