From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 22 21:58:50 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7620D1065670 for ; Tue, 22 Mar 2011 21:58:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chris#@1command.com) Received: from mail.1command.com (mail.1command.com [168.103.150.6]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D5048FC0C for ; Tue, 22 Mar 2011 21:58:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from webmail.1command.com (localhost.1command.com [127.0.0.1]) by mail.1command.com (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id p2MLwBGa062191 for ; Tue, 22 Mar 2011 14:58:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chris#@1command.com) Received: from udns0.ultimatedns.net ([168.103.150.26]) (Local authenticated user inf0s) by webmail.1command.com with HTTP; Tue, 22 Mar 2011 14:58:47 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20110322162435.51028324.jhsu802701@jasonhsu.com> References: <20110322162435.51028324.jhsu802701@jasonhsu.com> Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2011 14:58:47 -0700 (PDT) From: "Chris H" To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org User-Agent: HRC Internet Messaging/1.5.2 [SVN] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: Re: FreeBSD partitioning X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2011 21:58:50 -0000 On Tue, March 22, 2011 2:24 pm, Jason Hsu wrote: > How does partitioning work in FreeBSD? GParted recognizes FAT16, FAT32, NTFS, > ext2, ext3, ext4, swap, and many other formats but labels the FreeBSD partition > as unknown. Then there are the sub-partitions within the main FreeBSD > partition. GParted is not a "native" *BSD utility. It is mostly found on Linux recovery/ utility CD/DVD's. It is developed more with Linux in mind, and has always lacked ufs||ffs modules. So is not suitable for use on *BSD systems. It would be fairly trivial to create the modules to provide *BSD native support. But those who use the BSD family of operating systems fave found that sysinstall(8), fdisk(8) and related, are more than adequate to get the job done. There are also some very informative docs related to these tasks installed as part of your system, as well as available from: http://www.freebsd.org/docs.html It's hard to imagine needing anything else -- even if it's ones very first time. --Chris > > I'm finding it much more difficult to learn BSD than it was to learn Linux. > However, I'm sure it will be worth it, as BSD is legendary for stability and is > the basis for Mac OS and other proprietary systems. > > -- > Jason Hsu > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > --