Re: fdisk/disklabel broken for usb sticks ..

[Matthew Dillon <dillon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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:dscheck(#da/0x10002): illegal partition number (2) for WHOLE_DISK_SLICE access
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:fdisk fails to read disk partition table. disklabel is likewise confused.
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:The stick in question has a standard partition table and one dos partition.
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:It worked last week.
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:Should be easily reproducible.
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:Cheers,
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:Andrew

    You need to do a full buildworld/installworld/upgrade.  Make sure you
    have the latest MAKEDEV from /usr/src/etc/MAKEDEV, and remake all your
    devices.  In fact, rm your disk devices before you remake them to be
    sure you got them all.

    cp /usr/src/etc/MAKEDEV /dev/MAKEDEV
    cd /dev
    rm da*
    ./MAKEDEV da0

    fdisk will operate on a raw disk.  disklabel only operates on a slice.
    Any entities that did not have MBR's (were not fdisked) before, but
    did have disklabels, can be accessed via slice 0 (e.g. da0s0a instead
    of da0a). 

					-Matt
					Matthew Dillon 
					<dillon@backplane.com>