From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 29 13:24:48 2012 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 E12A61065673 for ; Wed, 29 Aug 2012 13:24:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from blue.seahorse.syndicate@gmail.com) Received: from mail-qa0-f47.google.com (mail-qa0-f47.google.com [209.85.216.47]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 928BF8FC1E for ; Wed, 29 Aug 2012 13:24:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: by qadc11 with SMTP id c11so3827172qad.13 for ; Wed, 29 Aug 2012 06:24:42 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=content-type:to:cc:subject:references:date:mime-version :content-transfer-encoding:from:organization:message-id:in-reply-to :user-agent; bh=5/u5jDzxGp0N/WFwPC8eyN6lz7l45jBo/tAZOlNg8Sc=; b=sbI02hj2mr59qzincGFGAI42F02B4/qGZ3Rhq5VFTElpENG9qudlrZyAiEgyl5UaGI YthLrYSlDTBk6PyNz2/yo0VPBOTXXKDGPlisd7jAoqBD7NXpjA9ifjlFzxXYFeUcOXcu EUb0OwDhRoPS4MVSYvZ1oRRGgOu91UH4GrdYITBvmS9sDAkTejhM92eZonRn8exHUD0f Kr3GqAoCLBeyt+GrWbamoNR9CjXTg3SHmuVmf7AeQnHoapKXNWc77K868wiut6PFFIw6 hisPc/RWsPrfW4BXWSPhaw0uErfWyRjK36besfDcOdEVmYw+pTQ6Y3aXfq9ea/kDgtSQ 8DgA== Received: by 10.229.134.206 with SMTP id k14mr805809qct.25.1346246682249; Wed, 29 Aug 2012 06:24:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (pool-72-65-100-235.ptldme.east.myfairpoint.net. [72.65.100.235]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id h8sm18212264qap.16.2012.08.29.06.24.40 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Wed, 29 Aug 2012 06:24:41 -0700 (PDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed; delsp=yes To: "Warren Block" References: Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2012 09:24:39 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: "Lynn Steven Killingsworth" Organization: Blue Seahorse Syndicate Message-ID: In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Opera Mail/12.01 (FreeBSD) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Partitioning with gpart 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: Wed, 29 Aug 2012 13:24:49 -0000 On Tue, 28 Aug 2012 21:33:16 -0400, Warren Block 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/