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Date:      Thu, 22 Jul 2010 18:26:23 +0300
From:      Volodymyr Kostyrko <c.kworr@gmail.com>
To:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Using GTP and glabel for ZFS arrays
Message-ID:  <i29nuv$jdt$1@dough.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <4C47B57F.5020309@langille.org>
References:  <4C47B57F.5020309@langille.org>

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22.07.2010 06:05, Dan Langille wrote:
> Create a new partition within that scheme:
>
> gpart add -b 34 -s SOMEVALUE -t freebsd-zfs ad0
>
> Why '-b 34'? Randi pointed me to
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GUID_Partition_Table where it explains what
> the first 33 LBA are used for. It's not for us to use here.

gpart is not so dumb to not protect this space. If you don't specify -b 
when creating first partition it automagically defaults to 34.

-- 
Sphinx of black quartz judge my vow.




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