From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 18 09:34:45 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ABD2FF60 for ; Tue, 18 Jun 2013 09:34:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from trond@fagskolen.gjovik.no) Received: from smtp.fagskolen.gjovik.no (smtp.fagskolen.gjovik.no [IPv6:2001:700:1100:1:200:ff:fe00:b]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 235F11B2A for ; Tue, 18 Jun 2013 09:34:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.fig.ol.no (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.fig.ol.no (8.14.7/8.14.7) with ESMTP id r5I9YfkY029175 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Tue, 18 Jun 2013 11:34:41 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from trond@fagskolen.gjovik.no) Received: from localhost (trond@localhost) by mail.fig.ol.no (8.14.7/8.14.7/Submit) with ESMTP id r5I9Yf3j029172; Tue, 18 Jun 2013 11:34:41 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from trond@fagskolen.gjovik.no) X-Authentication-Warning: mail.fig.ol.no: trond owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2013 11:34:41 +0200 (CEST) From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Trond_Endrest=F8l?= Sender: Trond.Endrestol@fagskolen.gjovik.no To: "O. Hartmann" Subject: Re: gpart: can not add MBR partitions with "gpart add -t mbr" In-Reply-To: <20130618110939.41c43066@telesto> Message-ID: References: <20130618110939.41c43066@telesto> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (BSF 1167 2008-08-23) Organization: Fagskolen Innlandet OpenPGP: url=http://fig.ol.no/~trond/trond.key MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: MULTIPART/MIXED; BOUNDARY="2055831798-1739251192-1371548081=:31028" X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.2 (2011-06-06) on mail.fig.ol.no Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2013 09:34:45 -0000 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--