Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2012 16:43:16 -0800 From: "Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg@tristatelogic.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Advanced Format Drive ? Message-ID: <71672.1354149796@tristatelogic.com> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1211281735290.69308@wonkity.com>
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In message <alpine.BSF.2.00.1211281735290.69308@wonkity.com>,
Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> wrote:
>On Wed, 28 Nov 2012, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
>
>>
>> In message <alpine.BSF.2.00.1211272215360.62205@wonkity.com>,
>> Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> wrote:
>>
>>>> I tried to do as you suggest and change the partition type to freebsd-ufs,
>>>> but there's a problem...
>>>>
>>>> # gpart modify -i 1 -t freebsd-ufs /dev/da1
>>>> gpart: Invalid argument
>>>
>>> da1 is the drive. da1s1 is the first slice.
>>
>> Yeabut that's what I thought that the -i option was for! I mean isn't the parameter for
>> that supposed to tell gpart which sub-part of the whole "geom" thing that is named on
>> the command line is supposed to be modified?
>
>Doh, you are right, and I misread it. It's the type that is the
>problem: freebsd-ufs is a not an MBR partition type, it should be just
>freebsd:
>
># gpart modify -i1 -t freebsd /dev/da1
Thank you again Warren. Success! I am a happy camper!
% gpart show /dev/da1
=> 63 1953525104 da1 MBR (931G)
63 1985 - free - (992k)
2048 1953519616 1 freebsd (931G)
1953521664 3503 - free - (1.7M)
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