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Date:      Mon, 4 Jun 2012 15:25:31 -0600 (MDT)
From:      Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>
To:        Gary Aitken <freebsd@dreamchaser.org>
Cc:        FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: bsdlabel geometry params
Message-ID:  <alpine.BSF.2.00.1206041521410.945@wonkity.com>
In-Reply-To: <4FCD21C0.50200@dreamchaser.org>
References:  <4FCCBDF4.1030008@dreamchaser.org> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1206041424150.945@wonkity.com> <4FCD21C0.50200@dreamchaser.org>

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On Mon, 4 Jun 2012, Gary Aitken wrote:

>> What part of the Handbook? I would suggest using gpart(8), it makes GPT partitions easy, and nasty old MBR partitions aren't any worse than with fdisk/bsdlabel.
>
> 19.3.2

That's the Storage chapter, section "Command Line Utilities".  That is 
yet another section that needs updating.  In the meantime, here:

http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/disksetup.html

The second half of that covers using gpart(8).  I suggest using GPT 
partitions unless your configuration does not allow them (gmirror, for 
example).



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