From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 29 00:27:03 2012 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 5615B106564A for ; Wed, 29 Aug 2012 00:27:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from blue.seahorse.syndicate@gmail.com) Received: from mail-vb0-f54.google.com (mail-vb0-f54.google.com [209.85.212.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B4398FC1A for ; Wed, 29 Aug 2012 00:27:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: by vbmv11 with SMTP id v11so8372064vbm.13 for ; Tue, 28 Aug 2012 17:27:02 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=content-type:date:to:subject:mime-version:content-transfer-encoding :from:organization:message-id:user-agent; bh=nYFjNiWHj/0ZWT9GEvMH93zf1ywrrWN42N+kxkFsxZw=; b=UWFFdYH2Rmc01SzbmjfLPzG1odmamtuzTldA5RWNWF0coSOfStSQz1fr+PH6X7I6SP ot4XtR54Y/CGSKH7UmxHW+TNWrQT/iTjnnWddOIQv2DQByCDndgDm0wh7huBm+QYIBkZ 1wBbhWPGeTNB4a/0s3KdzM4DGZ7MEKAM32+ll/bjTImrkmekOfR8zom5JOuIRlW1lwKg pa19c5/iw9UX4l0+TYUKrTK1ELkS+uZWkNZ+x53Qb+QC04jfOqTG2+SsY4WgcuRIXsnX nvySeYuJj/4zk2Rlu1U0d01xHV8uoejeyKl+MA+Ett8fMT7kN84PWhdxEanBE9l1v3Yw KOFQ== Received: by 10.220.116.6 with SMTP id k6mr16208939vcq.59.1346200022334; Tue, 28 Aug 2012 17:27:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (pool-72-73-106-142.ptldme.east.myfairpoint.net. [72.73.106.142]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id be4sm11028117vdc.20.2012.08.28.17.27.01 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Tue, 28 Aug 2012 17:27:01 -0700 (PDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed; delsp=yes Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2012 20:26:59 -0400 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: "Lynn Steven Killingsworth" Organization: Blue Seahorse Syndicate Message-ID: User-Agent: Opera Mail/12.01 (FreeBSD) Subject: Partitioning with gpart 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: Wed, 29 Aug 2012 00:27:03 -0000 Dear FreeBSD - I have installed PC-BSD 9.1 RC1 last week. Very nice I must say. The default file system is zfs. I have one storage disk which is ufs and another which is on an mbr partition. I thought I would format the mbr disk with zfs and move everything from the ufs disk and then format the ufs disk with zfs. I have not tried the command line before so I just tried to create over the disk with: gpart create -s gpt ada2 The message is that ada2 already exists as a file system. Show indicates that it is not gpt but mbr. Then in order to start over I tried to delete and destroy by starting with: gpart delete -i 1 ada2s1 The message is that ada2s1 is an invalid argument. I cannot experiment on my backup as it has only one disk. Comment please? -- Steve Blue Seahorse Syndicate http://www.blueleafsyndicate.org Maine & New Hampshire Using Opera's revolutionary email client: http://www.opera.com/mail/