Re: partition oddity

[Sascha Wildner <saw@xxxxxxxxx>]

Matthew Dillon wrote:
> :>     on /dev/ad8s2d ?   If you do a fresh boot (i.e. never having tried to
> :>     mount anything using that device), and then issue the dd, does it
> :>     work differently?
> :> 
> :>     Does disklabel recognize the disk?
> :> 
> :>     Also try regenerating the /dev entry for ad8s2.
> :> 
> :>     cd /dev
> :>     ./MAKEDEV ad8
> :>     ./MAKEDEV ad8s2
> :>     ./MAKEDEV ad8s2a
> :
> :Hmm,
> :
> :I tried most of this, all negative.
> :
> :However, I _do_ have some partitions of the ad8s1 slice mounted (/, 
> :/usr, etc.). Could it be because of this? I would think this shouldn't 
> :affect partitions on ad8's other slices, right?
> :
> :I'll try later from a LiveCD.
> :
> :Sascha
>
>     Is this on 1.12 or HEAD ?  I do recall a bug in the partition-open
>     bitmap in the disk layer that I'm pretty sure I fixed in HEAD, but
>     may not have fixed in 1.12.  It is possible there is an issue there,
>     it is worth checking out.

It's on HEAD. I just booted with last night's snapshot and the problem 
is the same, so it doesn't seem to matter whether other partitions on 
the same disk are mounted or not.

Sascha

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