From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 5 09:06:52 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 280721065674 for ; Tue, 5 Jun 2012 09:06:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wojtek@tensor.gdynia.pl) Received: from tensor.gdynia.pl (tensor.gdynia.pl [89.206.35.72]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C5B18FC16 for ; Tue, 5 Jun 2012 09:06:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: Received: from 127.0.0.1 (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by tensor.gdynia.pl (8.14.4/8.14.5) with ESMTP id q558jDmA064734; Tue, 5 Jun 2012 10:45:13 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wojtek@tensor.gdynia.pl) Received: from localhost (wojtek@localhost) by tensor.gdynia.pl (8.14.5/8.14.5/Submit) with ESMTP id q558jDKm064731; Tue, 5 Jun 2012 10:45:13 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wojtek@tensor.gdynia.pl) Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2012 10:45:13 +0200 (CEST) From: Wojciech Puchar To: Gary Aitken In-Reply-To: <4FCDAC8F.5040001@dreamchaser.org> Message-ID: References: <4FCCBDF4.1030008@dreamchaser.org> <4FCD21C0.50200@dreamchaser.org> <4FCDAC8F.5040001@dreamchaser.org> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (BSF 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Greylist: Sender passed SPF test, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.6 (tensor.gdynia.pl [89.206.35.72]); Tue, 05 Jun 2012 10:45:13 +0200 (CEST) Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: bsdlabel geometry params 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: Tue, 05 Jun 2012 09:06:52 -0000 whats wrong in juz using bsdlabel ? On Tue, 5 Jun 2012, Gary Aitken wrote: > On 06/04/12 15:25, Warren Block wrote: >> 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: > > I was making some notes as I went along about that. > I did decide to switch, thanks. > >> 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). > > Probably should have read mail sooner... > I found the wikipedia article > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GUID_Partition_Table > exactly what I needed to make sense of gpart. > Once you understand how the dang thing is laid out, > the commands make sense. > Without that, it's pretty difficult (for me, anyway) to figure out > how it knows what it needs to know to get it done. > > Thanks > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >