Gpart, "device busy".

mikethe1wheelnut

..I am trying to follow the instructions in this post: https://forums.FreeBSD.org/threads/creating-a-windows-10-bootable-usb-stick-using-freebsd.77429/post-482070

Things work fine until I get to gpart destroy, and then it gives me "device busy". I have checked this out: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=196102, but I am using the -F flag. I have also tried the advice here, using swapoff, and it didn't seem to have any effect.

Overall, my system is probably pretty messed up because I've been trying multiple tutorials to try to create a windows bootable usb with bsd. (..long story..) the first one(s) I tried were: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bK3lwDGrjKY

..and yes, I am aware that all those are links to freebsd, not ghostbsd. I am not entirely clear whether that is "approved" or not..

[I have now switched over to trying to do this in ubuntu, and can also try later from elsewhere with windows. it would be nice, however, to understand why it isn't working with bsd]

Robin

I found this to make it super-easy! But I don't know how to install it.

RodMyers

Looks like it's a python script.

Download the *.py script, and place in a temporary directory (for testing). Follow the readme file to run it.

If that works, I have a directory called ~/bin/ where I set my scripts. and it is in the location .bashrc ( or whatever shell you are using)

I just downloaded and placed in my /home/<my-account>/bin/ directory and ran it. It brings up a GUI to format drives

Robin

I got it to work, yay! This ought to be added to future releases of GhostBSD I think.

mikethe1wheelnut

Robin Really? ok.

My instinct is that the purpose of ghost is to make the transition to freebsd easier. So far, it does that -very- well. Seems to me that what is needed is not to incorporate this script into it's source-code, but to instead clearly point the way to tutorials that -do- work. I think my research informed me that the tutorials I found do work, just not for creating installation media for -windows-. ...if you are a novice user of ghostBSD... why the hell would you want to install windows? Isn't the whole point to get -away- from windows? >< (I'm only doing it because I'm trying to return the computer I bought, and the want me to put windows back on). So my particular use-case is definitely not the norm. Either that, or change the title of this question to make it so that the right people can find it easier. Using your link, and following RodMyers instructions, voila! :-)

..then again, maybe a ton of people will decide that the code really is fantastically useful.. they want to continue exploring all the various bsd distributions, and maybe also various linux distributions.. and it'll become just a hassle to keep on typing out all those commands again and again..

(I am still working through the process, so I can tell you the whole story of whether it worked or not -yesterday my eyes were bugging out, I had to rest them.)

mikethe1wheelnut

..I'm striking out. Here are two screen-shots of the process, and some code from the terminal. The program claims that it did it's thing successfully, but I'm unable to mount the result, "operation not permitted"

eriadar@eriadar-ghostbsd-pc ~/windows_flash_drive_creator [1]> su Password: root@eriadar-ghostbsd-pc:/home/eriadar/windows_flash_drive_creator # mount -t msdosfs /dev/da0s1 /mnt mount_msdosfs: /dev/da0s1: Operation not permitted root@eriadar-ghostbsd-pc:/home/eriadar/windows_flash_drive_creator # mount -t msdosfs /dev/da0 /mnt mount_msdosfs: /dev/da0: Operation not permitted root@eriadar-ghostbsd-pc:/home/eriadar/windows_flash_drive_creator # exit exit eriadar@eriadar-ghostbsd-pc ~/windows_flash_drive_creator> python3 FreeBSD-USB-Quick-Formatter.py xterm: cannot load font "-misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-iso10646-1" eriadar@eriadar-ghostbsd-pc ~/windows_flash_drive_creator> cd eriadar@eriadar-ghostbsd-pc ~> su Password: root@eriadar-ghostbsd-pc:/home/eriadar # mount -t msdosfs /dev/da0s1 /mnt mount_msdosfs: /dev/da0s1: Operation not permitted root@eriadar-ghostbsd-pc:/home/eriadar # mount -t msdosfs /dev/da0 /mnt mount_msdosfs: /dev/da0: Operation not permitted root@eriadar-ghostbsd-pc:/home/eriadar #

Note that the program reproduces the original error.

wb7odyfred

is it automatically mounted? share ourput back here of these 5 commands
mount
df -h
sudo umount /dev/d0

gpart status /dev/d0
gpart status
gpart show -lp
gpart show -rp

if the two gpt partitions do not match?

gpart recover

share with us the output from above
save partition table:
dd if=/dev/d0 of=~/my_d0_pt_table.bin bs=512 count=1
to overwrite the partition table with zeros:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/d0 bs=512 count=1

hope this helps, Fred

ls -la /dev/d0
mount
df - h

mikethe1wheelnut

wb7odyfred

First:

root@eriadar-ghostbsd-pc:/home/eriadar # mount zroot/ROOT/default on / (zfs, local, nfsv4acls) devfs on /dev (devfs) procfs on /proc (procfs, local) linprocfs on /compat/linux/proc (linprocfs, local) tmpfs on /tmp (tmpfs, local) linsysfs on /compat/linux/sys (linsysfs, local) fdescfs on /dev/fd (fdescfs) zroot/tmp on /tmp (zfs, local, nosuid, nfsv4acls) zroot/usr/src on /usr/src (zfs, local, nfsv4acls) zroot/var/tmp on /var/tmp (zfs, local, nosuid, nfsv4acls) zroot/usr/ports on /usr/ports (zfs, local, nosuid, nfsv4acls) zroot/var/audit on /var/audit (zfs, local, noexec, nosuid, nfsv4acls) zroot/var/crash on /var/crash (zfs, local, noexec, nosuid, nfsv4acls) zroot/var/mail on /var/mail (zfs, local, nfsv4acls) zroot/usr/home on /usr/home (zfs, local, nfsv4acls) devfs on /compat/linux/dev (devfs) fdescfs on /compat/linux/dev/fd (fdescfs) tmpfs on /compat/linux/dev/shm (tmpfs, local)

wb7odyfred

wb7odyfred gpart recover /dev/da0 sorry to not be fully explicit before, Mike.
gpart status /dev/da0
gpart show -lp /dev/da0
gpart show -rp /dev/da0

The /dev/da0s1 is a BSD slice /dev/da0p1 is a GPT partition, maybe /dev/da0s1 is a MBR formatted partition. see what gpart or the Linux Gparted tool shows you to be written on the Disk Partition table. Wish you Mike and you Robin success on that Quick USB formatter Python 3 tool for FreeBSD. Liemaeu/FreeBSD-USB-Quick-Formatter?tab=readme-ov-file

Robin

Something about fonts in there... strange. And "Windows_flash_drive_creator?" That isn't in the py script that I linked to either. Mine is "Quck-USB-Formatter," not any reference to Windows. Just run

python3 FreeBSD-USB-Quick-Formatter.py

in a terminal. It presents a menu from which I selected FAT32 and /devda0.

mikethe1wheelnut

Robin "Windows_flash_drive_creator" is the randomly chosen temporary folder I created for it following RodMyers advice.

mikethe1wheelnut

Robin And yes, I gave up on the fonts thing. ..shrug..

wb7odyfred

is it automatically mounted? share ourput back here of these 5 commands
mount
df -h
sudo umount /dev/d0

gpart status /dev/d0
gpart status
gpart show -lp
gpart show -rp

if the two gpt partitions do not match?

gpart recover

share with us the output from above
save partition table:
dd if=/dev/d0 of=~/my_d0_pt_table.bin bs=512 count=1
to overwrite the partition table with zeros:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/d0 bs=512 count=1

hope this helps, Fred
what is output 3 commands below:
ls -la /dev/d0
mount
df - h

good luck. these python scripts look useful with a gui to point and click.

mikethe1wheelnut

wb7odyfred

Second:

root@eriadar-ghostbsd-pc:/home/eriadar # df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on zroot/ROOT/default 217G 6.8G 210G 3% / devfs 1.0K 0B 1.0K 0% /dev procfs 8.0K 0B 8.0K 0% /proc linprocfs 8.0K 0B 8.0K 0% /compat/linux/proc tmpfs 12G 4.0K 12G 0% /tmp linsysfs 8.0K 0B 8.0K 0% /compat/linux/sys fdescfs 1.0K 0B 1.0K 0% /dev/fd zroot/tmp 210G 152K 210G 0% /tmp zroot/usr/src 210G 96K 210G 0% /usr/src zroot/var/tmp 210G 96K 210G 0% /var/tmp zroot/usr/ports 210G 96K 210G 0% /usr/ports zroot/var/audit 210G 96K 210G 0% /var/audit zroot/var/crash 210G 96K 210G 0% /var/crash zroot/var/mail 210G 360K 210G 0% /var/mail zroot/usr/home 220G 10G 210G 5% /usr/home devfs 1.0K 0B 1.0K 0% /compat/linux/dev fdescfs 1.0K 0B 1.0K 0% /compat/linux/dev/fd tmpfs 12G 4.0K 12G 0% /compat/linux/dev/shm

mikethe1wheelnut

wb7odyfred

..the last command here seems to give something interesting..

root@eriadar-ghostbsd-pc:/home/eriadar # sudo umount /dev/d0 umount: /dev/d0: statfs: No such file or directory umount: /dev/d0: unknown file system root@eriadar-ghostbsd-pc:/home/eriadar # umount /dev/d0 umount: /dev/d0: statfs: No such file or directory umount: /dev/d0: unknown file system root@eriadar-ghostbsd-pc:/home/eriadar # umount /dev/da0 umount: /dev/da0: unknown file system root@eriadar-ghostbsd-pc:/home/eriadar # gpart status /dev/d0 gpart: No such geom: /dev/d0. root@eriadar-ghostbsd-pc:/home/eriadar # gpart status /dev/da0 Name Status Components da0s1 OK da0

mikethe1wheelnut

wb7odyfred

and finally: [..appologies for the cruddy formatting, maybe I'll provide a screen-shot instead..]

`root@eriadar-ghostbsd-pc:/home/eriadar # gpart status /dev/da0
Name Status Components
da0s1 OK da0
root@eriadar-ghostbsd-pc:/home/eriadar # gpart status
Name Status Components
nvd0p1 OK nvd0
nvd0p2 OK nvd0
nvd0p3 OK nvd0
da0s1 OK da0
root@eriadar-ghostbsd-pc:/home/eriadar # gpart show -lp
=> 40 500118112 nvd0 GPT (238G)
40 532480 nvd0p1 (null) (260M)
532520 494669824 nvd0p2 (null) (236G)
495202344 4904960 nvd0p3 (null) (2.3G)
500107304 10848 - free - (5.3M)

=> 63 121145281 da0 MBR (58G)
63 121145281 da0s1 (null) [active] (58G)

root@eriadar-ghostbsd-pc:/home/eriadar # gpart show -rp
=> 40 500118112 nvd0 GPT (238G)
40 532480 nvd0p1 c12a7328-f81f-11d2-ba4b-00a0c93ec93b (260M)
532520 494669824 nvd0p2 516e7cba-6ecf-11d6-8ff8-00022d09712b (236G)
495202344 4904960 nvd0p3 516e7cb5-6ecf-11d6-8ff8-00022d09712b (2.3G)
500107304 10848 - free - (5.3M)

=> 63 121145281 da0 MBR (58G)
63 121145281 da0s1 11 [active] (58G)
`

mikethe1wheelnut

wb7odyfred

root@eriadar-ghostbsd-pc:/home/eriadar # gpart recover gpart: Invalid number of arguments.

mikethe1wheelnut

mikethe1wheelnut ..it seemed to me to be the program complaining, but the problem not actually affecting the core functionality..

wb7odyfred

mikethe1wheelnut gpart recover da0 or gpart recover ada0
Sorry we could not get ghostbsd working on your computer. You did try to make it work, MikeThe1Wheelnut. Thanks for reporting your outcome. I willing to help you make GhostBSD work on another computer.

mikethe1wheelnut

wb7odyfred

root@eriadar-ghostbsd-pc:/home/eriadar # ls -la /dev/da0 crw-rw-rw- 1 root operator 0x1b4 Jan 13 11:18 /dev/da0

mikethe1wheelnut

wb7odyfred ..you are aware that you posted almost exactly the same thing twice.. at least, they look the same to me, except for the last line. if there are more differences, please indicate them. if I am to actually perform the dd operations, again, please let me know. right now, my stomach is feeling woozy. rest time. getting over the generic cold, sore-throat sickness thing.

Robin

I moved the script to /home rather than to a temporary folder. Perhaps that's the only issue. Unless you cd, it will look for python3 FreeBSD-USB-Quick-Formatter.py in the /home folder.

mikethe1wheelnut

Robin ..I cd'd. i think it just wouldn't have worked otherwise, would have told me there was no such file. ..there is no doubt that the program runs, and does -something-. This is one of the things I liked about RodMyers answer, he provided me with advice about how to deal with software I download that doesn't come from repositories or ports. In other words, how to keep my computer clean and organized. I intend to thank him more formally once this issue is resolved, and if we don't manage that, I'll do it anyway :-) ..I actually just changed the name of the folder to /temp . Realized it was more appropriate. :-)