On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 11:35:11PM +0200, Dick Hoogendijk wrote: > My 1Tb sata2 drives work very well with FreeBSD. They can be sliced, > partitioned and newfs can be run. > However, no matter what I try (sysinstall, gpart) when I slice my 500Gb > drive and create a partition in it (1 block smaller than the slice) I > can not newfs the /dev/ad8s1a > It always end up with a *cg0: bad magic number*
Can you show the output of 'gpart show ad8' and 'bsdlabel ad8s1'? It might be that newfs is clobbering the partition table. Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725)
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