Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2012 09:24:39 -0400 From: "Lynn Steven Killingsworth" <blue.seahorse.syndicate@gmail.com> To: "Warren Block" <wblock@wonkity.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Partitioning with gpart Message-ID: <op.wjs0vdwrz5u56c@localhost> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1208281929080.82534@wonkity.com> References: <op.wjr0u9fyz5u56c@localhost> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1208281929080.82534@wonkity.com>
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On Tue, 28 Aug 2012 21:33:16 -0400, Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> wrote: > 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. Great. My storage disks are formatted with zfs and my files are moved. Thanks. -- Steve Blue Seahorse Syndicate http://www.blueleafsyndicate.org Maine & New Hampshire Using Opera's revolutionary email client: http://www.opera.com/mail/
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