Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2012 19:33:16 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> To: Lynn Steven Killingsworth <blue.seahorse.syndicate@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Partitioning with gpart Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1208281929080.82534@wonkity.com> In-Reply-To: <op.wjr0u9fyz5u56c@localhost> References: <op.wjr0u9fyz5u56c@localhost>
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On Tue, 28 Aug 2012, Lynn Steven Killingsworth wrote: > 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. The exact message would help; gpart is not a filesystem tool. > 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. gpart takes a -F option to destroy which makes it unnecessary to delete all the partitions first. Back up data first, and make certain that you and the computer agree on which drive is which.
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