Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 11:01:29 -0400 From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: questions@FreeBSD.org Cc: Franck Royer <royer.franck@gmail.com> Subject: Re: GPT Support on Freebsd Message-ID: <200810291101.29795.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <44ljw7eig5.fsf@lowell-desk.lan> References: <49059437.4000700@free.fr> <44ljw7eig5.fsf@lowell-desk.lan>
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On Wednesday 29 October 2008 07:42:18 am Lowell Gilbert wrote: > Franck Royer <royer.franck@gmail.com> writes: > > > Can I oblige pcbsd to look the gpt table instead of the msdos one ? How > > can I access to my fifth partition ? > > John Baldwin (jhb) has been working on GPT support, but it's still > reported to be a work in progress. It works as far as recognizing > disks over 16TB. It also gets picked up by the geom framework. I'm > not sure about booting, although there are tantalizing hints in the > manual pages. GPT booting works just fine on 6.x and later. Using the gpt(8) utility you basically do: # gpt create foo0 # gpt boot foo0 The second command creates a special boot partition in /dev/foo0p1. You can then add partitions: # gpt add -t ufs <other params like size if needed> foo0 # newfs /dev/foo0p2 gpart(8) in HEAD works similarly. The one thing lacking is that sysinstall/libdisk doesn't handle GPT, so there isn't a nice way to do it during installation. -- John Baldwin
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