Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2012 13:32:47 -0800 From: "Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg@tristatelogic.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Advanced Format Drive ? Message-ID: <25307.1353015167@tristatelogic.com> In-Reply-To: <50A4F2C8.5040308@qeng-ho.org>
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In message <50A4F2C8.5040308@qeng-ho.org>, Arthur Chance <freebsd@qeng-ho.org> wrote: >On 11/15/12 12:41, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: >>> -b is the beginning block of a partition. 34 is a magic value, the size >>> of a standard GPT partition table. >> >> It probably wouldn't have hurt anything to mention that in the gpart man >> page. >> >> And what about 162? Is that magic too? If so, how? I seriously do not >> know. > >The man example should be taken as a whole. You've got > >/sbin/gpart add -b 34 -s 128 -t freebsd-boot ad0 > >which gives you a 128 block partition starting at block 34, so the next >free block is 162, and the next partition is explicitly started there in > >/sbin/gpart add -b 162 -s 1048576 -t freebsd-ufs ad0 > >No magic, just arithmetic. :-) Ah! Silly me! Thank you. (I did miss that.) Regards, rfg
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