From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Dec 8 23:13:28 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 87638881 for ; Sun, 8 Dec 2013 23:13:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from wonkity.com (wonkity.com [67.158.26.137]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 356381760 for ; Sun, 8 Dec 2013 23:13:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from wonkity.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by wonkity.com (8.14.7/8.14.7) with ESMTP id rB8NDQAF071933; Sun, 8 Dec 2013 16:13:26 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from localhost (wblock@localhost) by wonkity.com (8.14.7/8.14.7/Submit) with ESMTP id rB8NDQuv071930; Sun, 8 Dec 2013 16:13:26 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Date: Sun, 8 Dec 2013 16:13:26 -0700 (MST) From: Warren Block To: Doug Hardie Subject: Re: Using bsdinstall for an additional drive In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (BSF 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.4.3 (wonkity.com [127.0.0.1]); Sun, 08 Dec 2013 16:13:26 -0700 (MST) Cc: Michael Sierchio , "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Questions" X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 08 Dec 2013 23:13:28 -0000 On Sun, 8 Dec 2013, Doug Hardie wrote: > > On 8 December 2013, at 10:47, Michael Sierchio wrote: > >> I think it's worth the effort to try to understand gpart et al. > > Yes - that works. But you have to remember it. I do this once every couple years. Thats why sysinstall was useful. I didn't have to remember either where I put the notes, or on the specific commands themselves. I run a number of systems running FreeBSD because they are reliable, consistent, and I don't have to remember a ton of drivel. Unfortunately, we have re-introduced some of that in this situation. sysinstall had some intermittent bugs that would occasionally do bad things. As Devin points out, bsdinstall has a partition editor. I personally find gpart easier to use. The article I linked earlier is kind of a checklist to make sure none of the important points is missed when setting up a new system disk. For setting up a single partition data disk, it can be much simpler: # gpart create -s gpt ada1 # gpart add -t freebsd-ufs -a4k ada1 # newfs -U /dev/ada1p1