From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Apr 24 17:30:14 2011 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 7F2DD1065675 for ; Sun, 24 Apr 2011 17:30:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@m.gmane.org) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1DCF08FC14 for ; Sun, 24 Apr 2011 17:30:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QE38H-0005d4-Qo for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 24 Apr 2011 19:30:05 +0200 Received: from p5dcd69aa.dip.t-dialin.net ([93.205.105.170]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 24 Apr 2011 19:30:05 +0200 Received: from jumper99 by p5dcd69aa.dip.t-dialin.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 24 Apr 2011 19:30:05 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: "Helmut Schneider" Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2011 17:24:11 +0000 (UTC) Lines: 112 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: p5dcd69aa.dip.t-dialin.net User-Agent: XanaNews/1.19.1.320 X-Ref: news.gmane.org ~XNS:0000015C X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 110424-0, 24.04.2011), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean Subject: gpart questions 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: Sun, 24 Apr 2011 17:30:14 -0000 Hi, i'm playing around with (virtual) disks within a VMware ESXi 4.1 server: [root@BSDHelmut864 ~]# uname -rsim FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE amd64 GENERIC [root@BSDHelmut864 ~]# sysctl kern.geom.debugflags=17 kern.geom.debugflags: 17 -> 17 [root@BSDHelmut864 ~]# gpart destroy da1 da1 destroyed [root@BSDHelmut864 ~]# gpart list da1 gpart: No such geom: da1. [root@BSDHelmut864 ~]# OK, the disk is empty, now create a new scheme: [root@BSDHelmut864 ~]# gpart create -s mbr da1 da1 created [root@BSDHelmut864 ~]# gpart show da1 => 63 156301425 da1 MBR (75G) 63 156301425 - free - (75G) [root@BSDHelmut864 ~]# gpart list da1 Geom name: da1 state: OK fwheads: 255 fwsectors: 63 last: 156301487 first: 63 entries: 4 scheme: MBR Consumers: 1. Name: da1 Mediasize: 80026361856 (75G) Sectorsize: 512 Mode: r0w0e0 [root@BSDHelmut864 ~]# Now create a new slice of ~21GB: [root@BSDHelmut864 ~]# gpart add -b 63 -s $(echo 21500*1024*2+63 | bc) -t freebsd da1 da1s1 added [root@BSDHelmut864 ~]# But - where is it? [root@BSDHelmut864 ~]# gpart show da1s1 gpart: No such geom: da1s1. [root@BSDHelmut864 ~]# gpart list da1s1 gpart: No such geom: da1s1. [root@BSDHelmut864 ~]# It should be there: [root@BSDHelmut864 ~]# gpart list da1 Geom name: da1 state: OK fwheads: 255 fwsectors: 63 last: 156301487 first: 63 entries: 4 scheme: MBR Providers: 1. Name: da1s1 Mediasize: 22544395776 (21G) Sectorsize: 512 Mode: r0w0e0 rawtype: 165 length: 22544395776 offset: 32256 type: freebsd index: 1 end: 44032085 start: 63 Consumers: 1. Name: da1 Mediasize: 80026361856 (75G) Sectorsize: 512 Mode: r0w0e0 [root@BSDHelmut864 ~]# But it isn't. Now I start sysinstall, choose "custom", "partiton", press "w" and quit sysinstall. There it is: [root@BSDHelmut864 ~]# gpart show da1s1 => 0 44032023 da1s1 BSD (21G) 0 44032023 - free - (21G) [root@BSDHelmut864 ~]# gpart list da1s1 Geom name: da1s1 state: OK fwheads: 255 fwsectors: 63 last: 44032022 first: 0 entries: 8 scheme: BSD Consumers: 1. Name: da1s1 Mediasize: 22544395776 (21G) Sectorsize: 512 Mode: r0w0e0 [root@BSDHelmut864 ~]# So, what did sysinstall that gpart didn't? Thanks, Helmut