Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2013 22:29:45 GMT From: Paul Hoffman <phoffman@proper.com> To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: docs/179378: Handbook should use gpart instead of fdisk because of larger disks Message-ID: <201306062229.r56MTjq4011885@oldred.freebsd.org> Resent-Message-ID: <201306062230.r56MU0mW043151@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 179378 >Category: docs >Synopsis: Handbook should use gpart instead of fdisk because of larger disks >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: low >Responsible: freebsd-doc >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: doc-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Thu Jun 06 22:30:00 UTC 2013 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Paul Hoffman >Release: 9.1 >Organization: >Environment: FreeBSD labbackup.proper.com 9.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE #0 r243826: Tue Dec 4 06:55:39 UTC 2012 root@obrian.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 >Description: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/disks-adding.html tells how to add a disk. This fails completely when the disk has large sector sizes. For example, with a new 3TB drive, fdisk says: fdisk: could not detect sector size The answer is to not use fdisk, but instead use gpart, as <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2013-March/249989.html>; so snidely points out. However, there is no cookbook for gpart, and that cookbook should be in the handbook. >How-To-Repeat: Use fdisk on a large modern drive >Fix: I still haven't worked out all the right steps for gpart. >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted:
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