Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2012 11:21:28 +0200 From: Julien Cigar <jcigar@ulb.ac.be> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bsdlabel geometry params Message-ID: <4FCDCF98.90903@ulb.ac.be> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1206051044540.64129@tensor.gdynia.pl> References: <4FCCBDF4.1030008@dreamchaser.org> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1206041424150.945@wonkity.com> <4FCD21C0.50200@dreamchaser.org> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1206041521410.945@wonkity.com> <4FCDAC8F.5040001@dreamchaser.org> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1206051044540.64129@tensor.gdynia.pl>
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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)
<http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=gpart&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+9.0-RELEASE>;
utility. Specifically, the fdisk(8)
<http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=fdisk&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+9.0-RELEASE>,
disklabel(8)
<http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=disklabel&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+9.0-RELEASE>;
bsdlabel(8)
<http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=bsdlabel&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+9.0-RELEASE>,
and sunlabel(8)
<http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=sunlabel&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+9.0-RELEASE>;
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
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