From owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 30 19:35:23 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF9761065705 for ; Tue, 30 Mar 2010 19:35:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhb@freebsd.org) Received: from cyrus.watson.org (cyrus.watson.org [65.122.17.42]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 81F308FC32 for ; Tue, 30 Mar 2010 19:35:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from bigwig.baldwin.cx (66.111.2.69.static.nyinternet.net [66.111.2.69]) by cyrus.watson.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 2BEA146B51; Tue, 30 Mar 2010 15:35:23 -0400 (EDT) Received: from jhbbsd.localnet (smtp.hudson-trading.com [209.249.190.9]) by bigwig.baldwin.cx (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 05EED8A021; Tue, 30 Mar 2010 15:35:22 -0400 (EDT) From: John Baldwin To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 15:09:30 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.12.1 (FreeBSD/7.3-CBSD-20100217; KDE/4.3.1; amd64; ; ) References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201003301509.30826.jhb@freebsd.org> X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.0.1 (bigwig.baldwin.cx); Tue, 30 Mar 2010 15:35:22 -0400 (EDT) X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.95.1 at bigwig.baldwin.cx X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.8 required=4.2 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.2.5 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.5 (2008-06-10) on bigwig.baldwin.cx Cc: Subject: Re: Questions about GPT and it's replacement... X-BeenThere: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Filesystems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 19:35:23 -0000 On Tuesday 30 March 2010 1:55:33 pm Hearn, Trevor wrote: > Heya Everyone, > I have a FreeBSD 6.4 system with a Promise array attached to it via a Qlogic > Fibre Channel card. I have been unable to get 7.2 to get past the FW:Get > mailbox error, so I installed FREEBSD 8.0 on it, and have been playing > around. I am used to GPT, and have set up all of the partitions in the past > using it. I see that someone did GPTE, but I can't seem to get it to see the > devices and partitions in the same way that it did before. Since GPTE seems > experimental, and self-proclaimed as 'hackerish' what should I use to cut up > a 25.5tb array? GPART? I am at a loss at the moment. I thought that GPTE was > doing what I needed, but when I try and mount the partitions, I get no > success. What am I missing? You should still use GPT, but you now have to use the 'gpart' utility to manage GPT partitions instead of gpt(8). -- John Baldwin