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From: Oleg Pudeyev <oleg@bsdpower.com>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject: bsdinstall does not newfs and cannot mount any non-standard partitions
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>Number:         174471
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       bsdinstall(8): does not newfs and cannot mount any non-standard partitions
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-sysinstall
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sun Dec 16 08:40:00 UTC 2012
>Closed-Date:    
>Last-Modified:  Mon Dec 24 15:30:01 UTC 2012
>Originator:     Oleg Pudeyev
>Release:        9.1-release
>Organization:
>Environment:
Not installed yet
>Description:
Trying to install freebsd 9.1.

I have the usual /, /usr, /var (which does not work), /tmp and /home assortment of partitions.

I also have a partition that I use for various things that overflow from one of the standard partitions. This one is called /any.

bsdinstall apparently cannot cope with this partition. After specifying it in partition editor, the next step produces:

Error

Error mounting partition /mnt/any:
mount: /dev/ada0s1h: Invalid argument

Then in the shell I performed a newfs on it manually:

newfs /dev/ada0s1h

And then I was able to mount it successfully in the shell.

After bsdinstall fails with that error it completely gives up and offers to restart from the beginning, discarding most data I already entered including partition layout.
>How-To-Repeat:
Try to install 9.1 and specify a non-standard partition
>Fix:


>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-bugs->freebsd-sysinstall 
Responsible-Changed-By: eadler 
Responsible-Changed-When: Sun Dec 16 15:27:49 UTC 2012 
Responsible-Changed-Why:  
fix synopsis and assign 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=174471 

From: Nathan Whitehorn <nathan.whitehorn@icecube.wisc.edu>
To: bug-followup@FreeBSD.org, oleg@bsdpower.com
Cc:  
Subject: Re: bin/174471: bsdinstall(8): does not newfs and cannot mount any
 non-standard partitions
Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2012 09:24:24 -0600

 Could you provide some more information? I can't reproduce this at all.
 The error would seem to indicate the partition is not initialized. Did
 you create it by hand and not run newfs? bsdinstall will only newfs on
 partitions it creates to avoid data loss.
 -Nathan
>Unformatted:
