I have an issue with gpart, it will not let me delete partition ada0p2 responding with “Device Busy” The man page gpart(8) says this may be shown if a partition exists but I cannot seem to delete partition 2 in my case via gpart delete or gpart destroy
This is a used disk but new to the machine, I can modify the partition type and create partitions before and after partition 2 but I cannot delete it. Here’s what I have tried so far: root@beastie:~ # gpart show => 34 1250263661 ada0 GPT (596G) 34 409606 - free - (200M) 409640 1249591904 2 freebsd-ufs (596G) 1250001544 262151 - free - (128M) => 40 976773088 ada1 GPT (466G) 40 1024 1 freebsd-boot (512K) 1064 984 - free - (492K) 2048 4194304 2 freebsd-swap (2.0G) 4196352 972576768 3 freebsd-zfs (464G) 976773120 8 - free - (4.0K) root@beastie:~ # gpart delete -i2 ada0 gpart: Device busy root@beastie:~ # gpart add -t freebsd-boot ada0 ada0p1 added root@beastie:~ # gpart show => 34 1250263661 ada0 GPT (596G) 34 409606 1 freebsd-boot (200M) 409640 1249591904 2 freebsd-ufs (596G) 1250001544 262151 - free - (128M) => 40 976773088 ada1 GPT (466G) 40 1024 1 freebsd-boot (512K) 1064 984 - free - (492K) 2048 4194304 2 freebsd-swap (2.0G) 4196352 972576768 3 freebsd-zfs (464G) 976773120 8 - free - (4.0K) root@beastie:~ # gpart delete -i2 ada0 gpart: Device busy root@beastie:~ # gpart delete -i1 ada0 ada0p1 deleted root@beastie:~ # gpart show => 34 1250263661 ada0 GPT (596G) 34 409606 - free - (200M) 409640 1249591904 2 freebsd-ufs (596G) 1250001544 262151 - free - (128M) => 40 976773088 ada1 GPT (466G) 40 1024 1 freebsd-boot (512K) 1064 984 - free - (492K) 2048 4194304 2 freebsd-swap (2.0G) 4196352 972576768 3 freebsd-zfs (464G) 976773120 8 - free - (4.0K) root@beastie:~ # gpart destroy -F ada0 gpart: Device busy root@beastie:~ # gpart modify -i2 -t freebsd-boot ada0 ada0p2 modified root@beastie:~ # gpart show => 34 1250263661 ada0 GPT (596G) 34 409606 - free - (200M) 409640 1249591904 2 freebsd-boot (596G) 1250001544 262151 - free - (128M) => 40 976773088 ada1 GPT (466G) 40 1024 1 freebsd-boot (512K) 1064 984 - free - (492K) 2048 4194304 2 freebsd-swap (2.0G) 4196352 972576768 3 freebsd-zfs (464G) 976773120 8 - free - (4.0K) I’m not sure where to go from here, I’m tempted to pull the drive and reformat elsewhere I have all tried dd’ing the disk as root but dd /dev/ada0 errors with unauthorised. Am I missing something obvious? _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"