Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2016 17:30:23 +0000 (UTC) From: Warren Block <wblock@FreeBSD.org> To: doc-committers@freebsd.org, svn-doc-all@freebsd.org, svn-doc-head@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r48568 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/disks Message-ID: <201604121730.u3CHUNKS075183@repo.freebsd.org>
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Author: wblock Date: Tue Apr 12 17:30:23 2016 New Revision: 48568 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/48568 Log: Add a small demonstration of how to see partition table information. Suggested by Bernard T. Higonnet <bthcom@higonnet.net> in freebsd-doc. Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/disks/chapter.xml Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/disks/chapter.xml ============================================================================== --- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/disks/chapter.xml Tue Apr 12 09:03:41 2016 (r48567) +++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/disks/chapter.xml Tue Apr 12 17:30:23 2016 (r48568) @@ -146,7 +146,16 @@ See &man.gpart.8; for options to create partitions smaller than a whole disk.</para> - <para>A file system is created on the new blank disk:</para> + <para>The disk partition information can be viewed with + <command>gpart show</command>:</para> + + <screen>&prompt.user; <userinput>gpart show ada1</userinput> +=> 34 1465146988 ada1 GPT (699G) + 34 2014 - free - (1.0M) + 2048 1465143296 1 freebsd-ufs (699G) + 1465145344 1678 - free - (839K)</screen> + + <para>A file system is created in the new partition on the new disk:</para> <screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>newfs -U /dev/ada1p1</userinput></screen> @@ -532,8 +541,7 @@ da0: <STECH Simple Drive 1.04> s/n match "system" "GEOM"; match "subsystem" "DEV"; action "/usr/sbin/automount -c"; -}; -</screen> +};</screen> <para>Reload the configuration if &man.autofs.5; and &man.devd.8; are already running:</para>
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