Hal segfaults when USB drive is connected

[Mike Dobbs]

BINGO!

I was actually just about to email back my problem and solution.  It appears
that for whatever reason /dev/da0 had a fat volume name?  Maybe it was
formated fat once?  I could change the label with newfs_msdos /dev/da0, but
couldn't figure out how to remove it.  After clearing the mbr it still
didn't work.  Finally I just zeroed out the disk with dd of=/dev/da0
if=/dev/zero bs=1024 count=1024.  WARNING this will damage data on your
drive and you will have to reformat! After that, dmesg reported no labels.
I resetup the partition and reformated it, and violla no problems!

I think the mtools is probably the better way to go if you don't want to
definatly have to recover your data.

Thanks for your help guys.

By the way, what's the deal with no spaces in the label anyway.  Linux had
no problem with this?  Is there a bug filed or fix?  I couldn't find any
report of the bug myself.  I did see a reference somewhere that it was
actually a GEOM problem, but I couldn't find anything.  I only had a problem
with HAL on Freebsd so far.

On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 9:56 AM, Jeremy Messenger <mezz7 at cox.net> wrote:

> On Fri, 16 Jan 2009 23:37:30 -0600, Kevin Oberman <oberman at es.net> wrote:
>
>  From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus at marcuscom.com>
>>> Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 23:36:04 -0500
>>> Sender: owner-freebsd-gnome at freebsd.org
>>>
>>> On Fri, 2009-01-16 at 20:52 -0600, Mike Dobbs wrote:
>>> >  I'm starting to think that I didn't have any glabel.  That just added
>>> > another label.  I tried glabel clear, but msdosfs/ . just keeps coming
>>> > back?
>>>
>>> You might try:
>>>
>>> tunefs -L dos /dev/da0
>>>
>>> I'm not sure if there's a better way to rename a DOS volume from
>>> FreeBSD.  Of course, if you have a Windows machine, you can just change
>>> the name there.
>>>
>>
>> I'm afraid that tunefs does not work on non-ufs file systems. You need
>> to plug it into a Windows box and rename it there. I had the same
>> problem with a disk that came named "WD PASSPORT".
>>
>
> The mtools might be what you are looking for. If you have big FAT32, see
> here:
>
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-gnome/2008-August/020818.html
>
> Make sure to back up your data before you try it. ;-)
>
> Cheers,
> Mezz
>
>
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