From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 5 09:22:39 2012 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 58F2C106564A for ; Tue, 5 Jun 2012 09:22:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jcigar@ulb.ac.be) Received: from mxin.ulb.ac.be (mxin.ulb.ac.be [164.15.128.112]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE6B88FC12 for ; Tue, 5 Jun 2012 09:22:38 +0000 (UTC) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: ApMBAEvOzU+kD30E/2dsb2JhbAANOBaFOLIEAQEBAwEBAQEgKyAQCwsYCSECAg8CFgEJJg4FAgQBAQEBBRQEh2UQpD6JaYkEixMaBoJaggSBEgOON4EdgyGDNYQujRuBVQg Received: from bebif01.ulb.ac.be (HELO [10.0.0.194]) ([164.15.125.4]) by smtp.ulb.ac.be with ESMTP; 05 Jun 2012 11:21:29 +0200 Message-ID: <4FCDCF98.90903@ulb.ac.be> Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2012 11:21:28 +0200 From: Julien Cigar Organization: Belgian Biodiversity Platform User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD i386; rv:12.0) Gecko/20120503 Thunderbird/12.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <4FCCBDF4.1030008@dreamchaser.org> <4FCD21C0.50200@dreamchaser.org> <4FCDAC8F.5040001@dreamchaser.org> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------050600090803020100090203" X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 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 09:22:39 -0000 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------050600090803020100090203 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 06/05/2012 10:45, Wojciech Puchar wrote: > whats wrong in juz using bsdlabel ? > from the 9.0R release notes: 3.2.6 Disk Partition Management Utilities In earlier releases various utilities were available to manage disk partition information. They are deprecated in favor of the gpart(8) utility. Specifically, the fdisk(8) , disklabel(8) bsdlabel(8) , and sunlabel(8) utilities are no longer supported actively though these are still available for backward compatibility. > 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" >> > _______________________________________________ > 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" -- No trees were killed in the creation of this message. However, many electrons were terribly inconvenienced. --------------050600090803020100090203--