From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Mon Sep 2 02:47:37 2019 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.nyi.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 92FFBCE723 for ; Mon, 2 Sep 2019 02:47:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tomdean@wavecable.com) Received: from smtp02.emerald.cmh.synacor.com (smtp.emerald.synacor.com [208.47.184.7]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 46MDyc2HM7z48Tc for ; Mon, 2 Sep 2019 02:47:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tomdean@wavecable.com) X_CMAE_Category: , , X-CNFS-Analysis: v=2.3 cv=ftyim2wf c=1 sm=1 tr=0 a=OAvc3ylXTZnwW13UMKQG5A==:117 a=OAvc3ylXTZnwW13UMKQG5A==:17 a=KGjhK52YXX0A:10 a=IkcTkHD0fZMA:10 a=jlQd9YhnVdoA:10 a=J70Eh1EUuV4A:10 a=JbhlE8a8jZIA:10 a=L4dEbPxg8bGbHTx5rLUA:9 a=QEXdDO2ut3YA:10 X-CM-Score: 0 X-Scanned-by: Cloudmark Authority Engine X-Authed-Username: dG9tZGVhbkB3YXZlY2FibGUuY29t X_CMAE_Category: , , X-CNFS-Analysis: X-CM-Score: X-Scanned-by: Cloudmark Authority Engine Received: from [24.113.143.192] ([24.113.143.192:57928] helo=[192.168.1.175]) by mail.wavecable.com (envelope-from ) (ecelerity 3.6.25.56547 r(Core:3.6.25.0)) with ESMTPA id 4C/CE-21293-6C28C6D5; Sun, 01 Sep 2019 22:47:34 -0400 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: "Thomas D. Dean" Subject: Convert MBR Partitions to GPT Message-ID: <1ef6d7eb-a7c9-2a5d-12b2-20c4ef255523@wavecable.com> Date: Sun, 1 Sep 2019 19:47:33 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 46MDyc2HM7z48Tc X-Spamd-Bar: / Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; dkim=none; dmarc=none; spf=pass (mx1.freebsd.org: domain of tomdean@wavecable.com designates 208.47.184.7 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=tomdean@wavecable.com X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-0.13 / 15.00]; ARC_NA(0.00)[]; RCVD_VIA_SMTP_AUTH(0.00)[]; RWL_MAILSPIKE_POSSIBLE(0.00)[7.184.47.208.rep.mailspike.net : 127.0.0.17]; FROM_HAS_DN(0.00)[]; R_SPF_ALLOW(-0.20)[+ip4:208.47.184.0/24]; TO_MATCH_ENVRCPT_ALL(0.00)[]; MIME_GOOD(-0.10)[text/plain]; TO_DN_NONE(0.00)[]; HFILTER_HELO_IP_A(1.00)[smtp02.emerald.cmh.synacor.com]; RCPT_COUNT_ONE(0.00)[1]; NEURAL_HAM_LONG(-0.60)[-0.604,0]; RECEIVED_SPAMHAUS_PBL(0.00)[192.143.113.24.khpj7ygk5idzvmvt5x4ziurxhy.zen.dq.spamhaus.net : 127.0.0.10]; RCVD_TLS_LAST(0.00)[]; NEURAL_SPAM_SHORT(0.27)[0.270,0]; RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE(0.00)[7.184.47.208.list.dnswl.org : 127.0.5.0]; NEURAL_HAM_MEDIUM(-0.92)[-0.919,0]; IP_SCORE(0.12)[ipnet: 208.47.184.0/23(0.17), asn: 36271(0.48), country: US(-0.05)]; HFILTER_HELO_NORES_A_OR_MX(0.30)[smtp02.emerald.cmh.synacor.com]; FROM_EQ_ENVFROM(0.00)[]; R_DKIM_NA(0.00)[]; MIME_TRACE(0.00)[0:+]; ASN(0.00)[asn:36271, ipnet:208.47.184.0/23, country:US]; MID_RHS_MATCH_FROM(0.00)[]; DMARC_NA(0.00)[wavecable.com]; RCVD_COUNT_TWO(0.00)[2] X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 02 Sep 2019 02:47:37 -0000 I have 5 disk drives, with two (same) OS's. Actually, two drives have Windows 7 and its secondary plex. From an earlier post: sata6g_1 HD0 SSD ubuntu 18.04 sata6g_2 HD1 WD5000 Ubuntu 18.04 sata3g_3 HD2 WD5000 windows 7 - not used sata3g_4 HD3 WD5000 backup sata3g_5 HD4 WD5000 windows 7 secondary plex- not used sata3g_6 DVD DRW-24B3LT sata6g_E1 (empty) sata6g_E2 (empty) I plan to keep the SSD Ubuntu install until I can get FreeBSD up and running the way I want. So, for now, I want to install FreeBSD on sata3g_5 HD4. My motherboard, ASUS P9X79 PRO has support for UEFI boot. Is it worth the effort to change everything to GPT, or, should I just use GPT on the FreeBSD disk? I am leaning toward the later, but, ... I think the future has a SSD for FreeBSD. Tom Dean