From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Nov 16 04:04:53 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5573CA51 for ; Fri, 16 Nov 2012 04:04:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from wonkity.com (wonkity.com [67.158.26.137]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E6A5B8FC0C for ; Fri, 16 Nov 2012 04:04:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from wonkity.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by wonkity.com (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id qAG44pP8069835; Thu, 15 Nov 2012 21:04:51 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from localhost (wblock@localhost) by wonkity.com (8.14.5/8.14.5/Submit) with ESMTP id qAG44pmH069832; Thu, 15 Nov 2012 21:04:51 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2012 21:04:51 -0700 (MST) From: Warren Block To: "Ronald F. Guilmette" Subject: Re: Advanced Format Drive ? In-Reply-To: <27315.1353030117@tristatelogic.com> Message-ID: References: <27315.1353030117@tristatelogic.com> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (BSF 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.7 (wonkity.com [127.0.0.1]); Thu, 15 Nov 2012 21:04:52 -0700 (MST) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2012 04:04:53 -0000 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.