From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 26 08:10:49 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE483106566B for ; Tue, 26 Apr 2011 08:10:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cyberleo@cyberleo.net) Received: from paka.cyberleo.net (paka.cyberleo.net [66.219.31.21]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 86CA28FC16 for ; Tue, 26 Apr 2011 08:10:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [172.16.44.4] (den.cyberleo.net [66.253.36.39]) by paka.cyberleo.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id B3C6E296BB; Tue, 26 Apr 2011 04:10:48 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <4DB67E08.4060604@cyberleo.net> Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2011 03:10:48 -0500 From: CyberLeo Kitsana User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.15) Gecko/20110416 Lightning/1.0b3pre Thunderbird/3.1.9 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Helmut Schneider References: In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: CyberLeo , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gpart questions X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2011 08:10:49 -0000 On 04/24/2011 12:24 PM, Helmut Schneider wrote: > Hi, > > i'm playing around with (virtual) disks within a VMware ESXi 4.1 server: > ... > So, what did sysinstall that gpart didn't? You forgot to gpart create the inner BSD label on da1s1. ----8<---- # mdconfig -a -t swap -s 512M md0 # gpart show md0 gpart: No such geom: md0. # gpart create -s mbr md0 md0 created # gpart show md0 => 9 1048563 md0 MBR (512M) 9 1048563 - free - (512M) # gpart add -b 63 -s 1048500 -t freebsd md0 md0s1 added # gpart show md0 => 9 1048563 md0 MBR (512M) 9 54 - free - (27K) 63 1048500 1 freebsd (512M) 1048563 9 - free - (4.5K) # gpart show md0s1 gpart: No such geom: md0s1. # gpart create -s bsd md0s1 md0s1 created # gpart show md0s1 => 0 1048500 md0s1 BSD (512M) 0 1048500 - free - (512M) # gpart add -b 16 -s 1048484 -t freebsd-ufs md0s1 md0s1a added # gpart show md0s1 => 0 1048500 md0s1 BSD (512M) 0 16 - free - (8.0K) 16 1048484 1 freebsd-ufs (512M) # ls -la /dev/md0* crw-r----- 1 root operator 0, 153 Apr 26 02:57 /dev/md0 crw-r----- 1 root operator 0, 157 Apr 26 02:58 /dev/md0s1 crw-r----- 1 root operator 0, 159 Apr 26 03:03 /dev/md0s1a ----8<---- -- Fuzzy love, -CyberLeo Technical Administrator CyberLeo.Net Webhosting http://www.CyberLeo.Net Furry Peace! - http://wwww.fur.com/peace/