Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2013 11:34:41 +0200 (CEST) From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Trond_Endrest=F8l?= <Trond.Endrestol@fagskolen.gjovik.no> To: "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gpart: can not add MBR partitions with "gpart add -t mbr" Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1306181133300.31028@mail.fig.ol.no> In-Reply-To: <20130618110939.41c43066@telesto> References: <20130618110939.41c43066@telesto>
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This message is in MIME format. The first part should be readable text, while the remaining parts are likely unreadable without MIME-aware tools. --2055831798-1739251192-1371548081=:31028 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT On Tue, 18 Jun 2013 11:09+0200, O. Hartmann wrote: > > Having a 1TB disk with a MBR partition layout created successfully with > "gpart create -s MBR ada4", which is shown as > > Geom name: ada4 > modified: false > state: OK > fwheads: 16 > fwsectors: 63 > last: 1953525167 > first: 63 > entries: 4 > scheme: MBR > Consumers: > 1. Name: ada4 > Mediasize: 1000204886016 (931G) > Sectorsize: 512 > Mode: r0w0e0 > > > it is impossible for me to create a partition with > > gpart add -t mbr ada4 Right, that should be a partition, not a partition table. Try: gpart add -t freebsd-ufs ada4 > as it can be read in the manpage of gpart. Whatever I do, I receive a > useless error from gpart > > gpart: Invalid argument > > with no further information. > > In kernel, I already added GEOM_MBR. geom_part_mbr and geom_part_ldm > kernel modules are then already loaded. > > I tried to figure out what's going wrong but this seems highly > enigmatic. > > What am I doing wrong? > > Regards and thanks, > > Oliver -- +-------------------------------+------------------------------------+ | Vennlig hilsen, | Best regards, | | Trond Endrestøl, | Trond Endrestøl, | | IT-ansvarlig, | System administrator, | | Fagskolen Innlandet, | Gjøvik Technical College, Norway, | | tlf. mob. 952 62 567, | Cellular...: +47 952 62 567, | | sentralbord 61 14 54 00. | Switchboard: +47 61 14 54 00. | +-------------------------------+------------------------------------+ --2055831798-1739251192-1371548081=:31028--
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