https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=271281
Bug ID: 271281
Summary: gpart: wrong and useless error message "Invalid
argument" when gpart fails due to internal bugs
Product: Base System
Version: Unspecified
Hardware: Any
OS: Any
Status: New
Severity: Affects Some People
Priority: ---
Component: kern
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
One longstanding hassle with setting up FreeBSD is gpart and its bugs.
For example, gpart frequently fails to create partitions for unknown reasons.
It then always prints "Invalid argument" when the arguments are perfectly
correct, and some bug makes it fail.
It is highly annoying and embarassing to see that FreeBSD has deteriorated that
much that it is not even capable to set up partitions, and the need to have a
Linux live CD handy, just for setting up drives.
Suggested solution:
So, in case of failure in spite of valid arguments please have gpart print
diagnostics information instead of "Invalid argument" and ask the user to file
a bug report against gpart.
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