From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 29 00:43:18 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 15AEDA4B for ; Thu, 29 Nov 2012 00:43:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rfg@tristatelogic.com) Received: from outgoing.tristatelogic.com (segfault.tristatelogic.com [69.62.255.118]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E3B9B8FC08 for ; Thu, 29 Nov 2012 00:43:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from segfault-nmh-helo.tristatelogic.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by segfault.tristatelogic.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 781495081A for ; Wed, 28 Nov 2012 16:43:16 -0800 (PST) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Advanced Format Drive ? In-Reply-To: Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2012 16:43:16 -0800 Message-ID: <71672.1354149796@tristatelogic.com> From: "Ronald F. Guilmette" 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: Thu, 29 Nov 2012 00:43:18 -0000 In message , Warren Block wrote: >On Wed, 28 Nov 2012, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: > >> >> In message , >> Warren Block 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)