+-------[ Marcel Moolenaar ]---------------------- | | On May 19, 2009, at 10:33 AM, Randy Bush wrote: | | >>If you have done a chroot then you need to make sure devfs is also | >>mounted within it | >> | >>mount -t devfs devfs /dist/dev | > | ><doh> thanks. | > | >Fixit# gpart create -s gpt /dev/ad4 | >gpart: geom 'ad4': File exists | > | >Fixit# gpart create -s gpt ad4 | >gpart: geom 'ad4': File exists | > | >sorry to be such a pita | | Try and read the feedback (i.e. error) you get and | interpret it. Close your email program for a second | and stop typing alrady. Use your brain! | | Ok, so you get an error and the error tells you that | something exists already. It says "geom 'ad4'" and | not "device 'ad4'", so let's not take "File exists" | literally and wonder if it's /dev/ad4. A simple ls(1) | should eliminate any doubts there. | | So, maybe there's already some partitioning on the | disk? Hmmm, how to find that out. Tough one... | | Hang on, let's do: | gpart show ad4 | | What does that say? Instead of having to send multiple snide emails like this about it, why not just make the error message more descriptive and less BSOD-like? Surely fixing the error messages would take less time than dealing with the emails... -- Andrew Milton akm_at_theinternet.com.auReceived on Tue May 19 2009 - 20:27:55 UTC
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