Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2015 23:57:56 -0800 From: John-Mark Gurney <jmg@funkthat.com> To: Brett Wynkoop <freebsd-arm@wynn.com> Cc: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gpart and labels on FBSD11-ARM Message-ID: <20150216075756.GI1953@funkthat.com> In-Reply-To: <20150216013540.580b49a6@ivory.wynn.com> References: <20150216013540.580b49a6@ivory.wynn.com>
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Brett Wynkoop wrote this message on Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 01:35 -0500:
> Greeting-
>
> I am just getting back to working with arm stuff after being taken away
> from it for a while by life events.
>
> I just installed current using crochet (Thanks Tim) and was pleased to
> see that USB is now working on the BeagleBone. Great job guys!
>
> I have a 30GB usb stick in my BB and I sliced up the disk with gpart
> and in so doing labeled the two partitions as gpswap and bbd0. I
> expected to see those names under /dev/gpt, but no joy. There is not
> even a /dev/gpt. In fact I find neither name anywhere under /dev.
>
> This leads to the question of the hour.......what did I do wrong?
>
> I can of course address the partations as /dev/da0p1 and /dev/da0p2,
> but I much prefer to do things with labels if possible.
This could be because BEAGLEBONE doesn't have GEOM_LABEL turned on by
default.. Either try loading geom_label, or recompile your kernel
w/ it, and they should appear..
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