Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2012 21:04:51 -0700 (MST) From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> To: "Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg@tristatelogic.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Advanced Format Drive ? Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1211152056140.69719@wonkity.com> In-Reply-To: <27315.1353030117@tristatelogic.com> References: <27315.1353030117@tristatelogic.com>
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On Thu, 15 Nov 2012, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: > I think that I have only two final questions: > > 1) I can't remember now if the ``guided'' partitioning approach that > is offered to folks who are installing FreeBSD 9.x itself offers a > "GPT" option or not. Does it? (If not, and if MBR is really now > considered antiquated, then I would think that the install process > really should offer a GPT option, if it isn't doing so already.) GPT is the default for bsdinstall. > 2) Not knowing any better, on this fresh install that I'm doing now > (of 9.1-RC3) when it got down to the point where it asked me how I wanted > to partition, I selected the "exit to shell" option. Once I got a > shell prompt, I proceeded to do bascially everything that's suggested > in the "The New Standard Method" section of Warren's nice tutorial. > My assumption was that I could do this, get all of my shiny new GPT > partitions just the way I wanted them, and just simply exit the shell... > an action which, I had hoped, would return me to the install process > at a point where I would then be asked to assign mount points to each > of my newly created GPT partitions, and then, hopefully, the rest of the > install process would proceed in an entirely customary way. It would, but you have to mount the new filesystems in a certain spot. bsdinstall shows a prompt about that. > And how exactly do mount points get associated with partitions (in particular > GPT partitions) anyway? Are these just another partition attribute? The > gpart(8) man page is also utterly silent on the subject of mount points, > even though they are quite obviously a rather critical component of what > it takes to make a partition useful on/to FreeBSD. GPT partitions appear in /dev as the drive name followed by "p" and the partition number, similar to the old slice/partition notation. So instead of /dev/ada0s1a, it will typically be /dev/ada0p2. These are entered in /etc/fstab as normal. My guide uses GPT labels, which are superior in many ways to fixed device names, but also not really covered by that article. > P.S. Assigning mount points appears to be one thing that the new swiss- > army-knife of gpart _cannot_ do. Given that, I have to ask... > What if any command line tool is available to associate partitions with > mount points? /etc/fstab, same as normal.
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