On 12/1/11 3:14 AM, Robert Huff wrote: > > Warren Block writes: > >> > 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. >> >> Maybe force geom retasting? >> >> true > /dev/ad1 > > I did this. > Afterwards, "gpart show" continues to report the 456G vaule, > not the 80G I should see. > > > Robert Huff >
Any success using bsdlabel on the disk to initialize it, then fdisk to partition it ? Then report the geom show again. _______________________________________________ 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"
