From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 10 21:15:04 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 ABC5B1065673 for ; Mon, 10 Oct 2011 21:15:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from illoai@gmail.com) Received: from mail-bw0-f54.google.com (mail-bw0-f54.google.com [209.85.214.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E1038FC12 for ; Mon, 10 Oct 2011 21:15:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bkbzs8 with SMTP id zs8so10510246bkb.13 for ; Mon, 10 Oct 2011 14:15:03 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=mWzBTA667r8qbCbWVjdMWqX8jCQFvpagcuY5IABJzis=; b=vTuaVMwX8c3f+AVpLYbhqgu6zKCYx/9lJFiEjZUXfW/q8/pP5fb9+hpygAkBk13mYD egBF5Rjbl0jMDbKUnCrXGs14jd2oEl8GqUjfg2jTJwj7y7EiAhLMHTSPr/qky0HiBveK pzO/pROJ4wN2lsqgX3rbQJ5n6/TqsvRXQgl7w= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.223.77.69 with SMTP id f5mr34761764fak.3.1318281303017; Mon, 10 Oct 2011 14:15:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.223.96.200 with HTTP; Mon, 10 Oct 2011 14:15:02 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2011 17:15:02 -0400 Message-ID: From: "illoai@gmail.com" To: n dhert Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: using /sbin/gpart to add GPT volume 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: Mon, 10 Oct 2011 21:15:04 -0000 On 10 October 2011 11:33, n dhert wrote: > I have a FreebSD 8.2 machine with 12 1-Tb disks used for making backups. > now I try to create > # gpart create -s GPT ad0s4 > gpart: provider: Device not configured (NB I do not have a multi-boot system with an MBR scheme on it, so I'm not clear on the pre- cise details) You want some variation of # gpart add -t freebsd-ufs ad0[s4] "create" is for the disk-wise scheme "add" is for the individual slices/partitions Again, I haven't played with gpart on an MBR disk, so be careful. Aso, if you're muddling with the boot disk, you may have to work in single-user mode. -- --