Disklabel Editor strange labeling

[Andrei Kolu]

Andrei Kolu wrote:
> Hi,
>
> here is my disklabel editor "screenshot"- from where it got ad14cs1 
> partition name? When I created it then it was named ad14s1...
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
>
>                         FreeBSD Disklabel Editor
>
> Disk: ad14      Partition name: ad14cs1 Free: 293041602 blocks (139GB)
> Disk: ad18      Partition name: ad18s1  Free: 293041602 blocks (139GB)
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
>
>
> When I trie to create partition on this slice then I got error message:
>
> "Error mounting /dev/ad14cs1d on /tank/bootdir : No such file or 
> directory"
>
> After I close sysinstall and restart it then partition disappear...
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
>
> Disk name:      ad14                                   FDISK Partition 
> Editor
> DISK Geometry:  18241 cyls/255 heads/63 sectors = 293041665 sectors 
> (143086MB)
>
> Offset       Size(ST)        End     Name  PType       Desc  
> Subtype    Flags
>
>         0  293046768  293046767        -     12     unused        0
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
>
>
> FreeBSD testiserver 7.1-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 7.1-PRERELEASE #1: Mon Dec  
> 1 12:13:41 EET 2008     root at testiserver:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/KERNEL  
> amd64
>
OK, finally resolved problem by filling drive with zeroes:

# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ad14 bs=10m