On 11/30/11 10:01 PM, Robert Huff wrote: > > One of my systems has a hot-swap eSATA device, which reports as > "ad1". I'm trying to use this to prepare a new disk using gpart and > something (possibly my understanding) is broken. > After removing another disk and inserting the new one, I do: > >>> gpart show ad1 > => 34 976773101 ad1 GPT (465G) > 34 976773101 - free - (465G) > > ... which is the value for the disk just removed. > If I do (to start clean): > >>> gpart destroy ad1 > gpart destroy ad1 > gpart: Input/output error > > Huh? >
Huh indeed. Please toggle GEOM debug and try again: sysctl kern.geom.debugflags=17 _______________________________________________ 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"