From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 6 10:28:33 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB0D6106566B for ; Thu, 6 Jan 2011 10:28:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from smithi@nimnet.asn.au) Received: from sola.nimnet.asn.au (paqi.nimnet.asn.au [115.70.110.159]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 414E28FC13 for ; Thu, 6 Jan 2011 10:28:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by sola.nimnet.asn.au (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id p06ASNf1016035; Thu, 6 Jan 2011 21:28:23 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from smithi@nimnet.asn.au) Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2011 21:28:23 +1100 (EST) From: Ian Smith To: Bruce Cran In-Reply-To: <20110106091155.00005a3d@unknown> Message-ID: <20110106201717.D49334@sola.nimnet.asn.au> References: <20101229120038.3DFB0106591A@hub.freebsd.org> <20101230133126.O36121@sola.nimnet.asn.au> <20101231105353.S36121@sola.nimnet.asn.au> <20110102102255.00004f57@unknown> <20110102230702.N49334@sola.nimnet.asn.au> <20110103022619.O49334@sola.nimnet.asn.au> <20110104143245.P49334@sola.nimnet.asn.au> <20110105152725.U49334@sola.nimnet.asn.au> <20110106160720.B49334@sola.nimnet.asn.au> <20110106091155.00005a3d@unknown> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: FreeBSD Questions , Chris Brennan Subject: Re: a new hard-drive in a 2y/o laptop X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2011 10:28:33 -0000 On Thu, 6 Jan 2011 09:11:55 +0000, Bruce Cran wrote: > On Thu, 6 Jan 2011 20:06:42 +1100 (EST) > Ian Smith wrote: > > > Just be sure NOT to use the 'A' option for auto-partitioning again; > > I'm sure I saw some problem with that on 8.1, not sure if it's fixed > > on 8.2 (Bruce?) so I suggest allocating the BSD partitioning you > > really want. > > I've not fixed anything related to that. Oh, I must have dreamed it all; found nothing in local -stable archives, went hunting on sysinstall cvsweb but found anything there, don't know how to search svn yet; life's too short. Thanks for teaching some GPT. Sorry, Ian