So, I'm trying something on -current.
I boot up, log into root. I have two hard disks on the system. All
of my mounted partitions are on ad0, except for one partition on ad2.
I 'umount' that partition. I run the Disklabel Editor via sysinstall.
I delete that partition, and then re-create it as a UFS2 partition.
I do the 'w'rite, and everything looks fine.
I drop out of sysinstall, do some things with that partition, and
then decide to redo the above sequence. Everything has been working
fine, but I'm just testing some things and I end up in a position
where it's quicker to newfs the partition than it is to 'rm' the
files on it. So, I do the same exact sequence (starting with the
'umount' before running sysinstall), and this time when I do the
'w'rite, I am told:
ERROR: Unable to write data to disk ad2!
If I reboot, then I can repeat the sequence with no problem.
At the time I'm trying to do the 'w'rite, the disklabel screen
looks like:
Disk: ad2 Partition name: ad2s1 Free: 0 blocks (0MB)
Disk: ad2 Partition name: ad2s2 Free: 0 blocks (0MB)
Disk: ad2 Partition name: ad2s3 Free: 0 blocks (0MB)
Part Mount Size Newfs Part Mount Size Newfs
---- ----- ---- ----- ---- ----- ---- -----
ad2s1a <none> 150MB * ad2s2a <none> 160MB *
ad2s1b swap 750MB SWAP ad2s2f <none> 125MB *
ad2s1e <none> 150MB * ad2s2g <none> 4040MB *
ad2s1f <none> 120MB * ad2s2h <none> 1175MB *
ad2s1g <none> 4040MB * ad2s3d /usr/cvs/ 3100MB UFS2+S Y
ad2s1h <none> 2589MB * ad2s3e <none> 3136MB *
It is perhaps significant that the system's /etc/fstab does not
include *this* swap partition at bootup, but after doing the above
sequence I see:
(302) swapctl -l
Device: 1024-blocks Used:
/dev/ad0s4b 1792000 48
/dev/ad2s1b 768000 0
It is probably true that I should just type in the newfs command I
want instead of going thru sysinstall, but I was partially testing
to see if there was a bug in the way sysinstall was creating the
partition...
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