On Jul 16, 2013, at 1:50 PM, Michael Sierchio wrote: > On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 1:44 PM, aurfalien <aurfal...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Upon doing; >> >> gpart destroy da0 >> >> I get; >> >> gpart: Device busy > > crude but effective: > > > DISK=da0 > > offset=`diskinfo $DISK | awk '{ print $4 - 131072 }'` > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/$DISK bs=64k count=1 > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/$DISK bs=64k seek=$offset > > gpart create -s gpt ${DISK}
This is what I ended up doing. I unplugged it, waited a few, re plugged and then I was able to delete/destroy. I will keep your method on hand though as I prefer not doing a hot plug. - aurf _______________________________________________ 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"