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Date:      Tue, 5 Jun 2012 10:45:13 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@tensor.gdynia.pl>
To:        Gary Aitken <freebsd@dreamchaser.org>
Cc:        FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: bsdlabel geometry params
Message-ID:  <alpine.BSF.2.00.1206051044540.64129@tensor.gdynia.pl>
In-Reply-To: <4FCDAC8F.5040001@dreamchaser.org>
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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
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