Re: some 5.0 oddities

[Andrew Thompson]

Andy Farkas wrote:

5/ disklabel doesn't work:

team2# disklabel ad4
disklabel: ioctl DIOCGDINFO: Operation not supported by device
team2# disklabel -r ad4
disklabel: bad pack magic number (label is damaged, or pack is unlabeled)

I think you need to give the full device name like "disklabel ad4s1". Here is a snippet from the release notes:

<snip>
*
Note:* GEOM-enabled kernels no longer support ``compatability slices''. This feature (supported on the i386 and pc98 only) allowed a user to refer to a disk partition without specifying an MBR slice (e.g. /dev/ad0a); the kernel would automatically find the first applicable FreeBSD slice and use it. On GEOM-enabled kernels (the default), only the full partition names (e.g. /dev/ad0s1a) are allowed when referring to partitions within MBR slices. This change should affect very few users.

</snip>



Andy




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