From owner-freebsd-current@freebsd.org Fri Dec 11 23:23:00 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 87CDA9D7953 for ; Fri, 11 Dec 2015 23:23:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from carsten.kunze@arcor.de) Received: from mail-in-12.arcor-online.net (mail-in-12.arcor-online.net [151.189.21.52]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "mx.arcor.de", Issuer "Thawte SSL CA" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 45D1D156D for ; Fri, 11 Dec 2015 23:22:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from carsten.kunze@arcor.de) Received: from mail-in-13-z2.arcor-online.net (mail-in-13-z2.arcor-online.net [151.189.8.30]) by mx.arcor.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3pHSp328j1z8Tf6 for ; Sat, 12 Dec 2015 00:22:51 +0100 (CET) Received: from mail-in-07.arcor-online.net (mail-in-07.arcor-online.net [151.189.21.47]) by mail-in-13-z2.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1FF083C5729 for ; Sat, 12 Dec 2015 00:22:51 +0100 (CET) Received: from webmail06.arcor-online.net (webmail06.arcor-online.net [151.189.8.133]) by mail-in-07.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3pHSp30cfnzBsb5 for ; Sat, 12 Dec 2015 00:22:51 +0100 (CET) X-DKIM: Sendmail DKIM Filter v2.8.2 mail-in-07.arcor-online.net 3pHSp30cfnzBsb5 Received: from [84.179.13.20] by webmail06.arcor-online.net (151.189.8.133) with HTTP (Arcor Webmail); Sat, 12 Dec 2015 00:22:50 +0100 (CET) Date: Sat, 12 Dec 2015 00:22:51 +0100 (CET) From: Carsten Kunze To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Message-ID: <1453076310.228976.1449876171067.JavaMail.ngmail@webmail06.arcor-online.net> In-Reply-To: <45234563.128753656.1449875427901.JavaMail.zimbra@uoguelph.ca> References: <45234563.128753656.1449875427901.JavaMail.zimbra@uoguelph.ca> <1872732466.128678074.1449869697292.JavaMail.zimbra@uoguelph.ca> <1812473578.396927.1449851649511.JavaMail.ngmail@webmail08.arcor-online.net> <1951187234.227919.1449866352324.JavaMail.ngmail@webmail06.arcor-online.net> <1216457205.228496.1449870717994.JavaMail.ngmail@webmail06.arcor-online.net> Subject: Aw: Re: Aw: Re: Partitioning on a MBR table disk fails (and destroys my data...) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-ngMessageSubType: MessageSubType_MAIL X-WebmailclientIP: 84.179.13.20 X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2015 23:23:00 -0000 Rick Macklem wrote: > I don`t use it, but gpart is the preferred FreeBSD command. You might try > that instead. Does it work with MBR or only GPT? Anyway, I'll try it. > Well, although installing is always a bit scary, if you don`t touch the > other > slices, I`d delete and create the freebsd one. It gets to a certain point > when > doing the `Manual MBR` before it asks you if you want to save it on disk. At least creating by the (curses) GUI installer is not possible. It does create somewhere instead of asking me and it doesn't even tell me where it has created it. And there are numeric bugs in the tool. The numbers it displayed changed without reason and became even negative ... So the MBR I don't touch with FreeBSD anymore ... A simple task for the installer developer: Please let me use an existing empty slice. This is no rocket sience. Carsten