From owner-freebsd-ia64@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 2 04:43:16 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ia64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 754281065696 for ; Thu, 2 Jul 2009 04:43:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from xcllnt@mac.com) Received: from asmtpout027.mac.com (asmtpout027.mac.com [17.148.16.102]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 611508FC14 for ; Thu, 2 Jul 2009 04:43:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from xcllnt@mac.com) MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed; delsp=yes Received: from macbook-pro.lan.xcllnt.net ([75.101.29.67]) by asmtp027.mac.com (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 6.3-8.01 (built Dec 16 2008; 32bit)) with ESMTPSA id <0KM5005MI143TU90@asmtp027.mac.com> for freebsd-ia64@freebsd.org; Wed, 01 Jul 2009 21:43:16 -0700 (PDT) From: Marcel Moolenaar In-reply-to: <20090701093150.GA62036@mech-cluster238.men.bris.ac.uk> Date: Wed, 01 Jul 2009 21:43:15 -0700 Message-id: References: <20090701093150.GA62036@mech-cluster238.men.bris.ac.uk> To: Anton Shterenlikht X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1068) Cc: freebsd-ia64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: slices, partitions, fdisk and bsdlabel on ia64 X-BeenThere: freebsd-ia64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the IA-64 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 02 Jul 2009 04:43:16 -0000 On Jul 1, 2009, at 2:31 AM, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > Am I correct in thinking this is a "dangerously dedicated" (no > slices) disk, > and partitions are numbered p? You're not correct. Itanium uses GPT and not MBR for partitions. > Does this mean the handbook section 3.5, Disk Organisation, > is incorrect for ia64? Yes, it's incorrect. There's a high bias towards PC in the handbook. Not surprising, but it means that you should not take it literally. > There's no fdisk on ia64, is there? gpart is used for all partition, including MBR. > > I can't find bsdlabel either, on alpha it's under /sbin, but > on ia64 it's nowhere to be found. gpart is used for BSD disklabels as well. FYI, -- Marcel Moolenaar xcllnt@mac.com