From owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 11 04:19:40 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [8.8.178.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E08A121F for ; Mon, 11 Mar 2013 04:19:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jdavidlists@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ie0-x22d.google.com (mail-ie0-x22d.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4001:c03::22d]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B496D309 for ; Mon, 11 Mar 2013 04:19:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ie0-f173.google.com with SMTP id 9so4251761iec.32 for ; Sun, 10 Mar 2013 21:19:40 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:x-received:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=Dxu8GRKfhgaKjyOXqfsUVmWp9yzwDVq/TOrQjV66Nds=; b=wSI2t8Pp84JbALL1tizqWjHdOAMxgbvcZcR5TC2naSL8V9eEs4YBiai0EZf12cNfwc v1d1+EjpDBxJ7VMXuZmJfXxCtH78i95JdSBw7Ib0hUMVkGVZ4XYbIRw05B2yytDUjRfe eakYl+vWmJBtBaU/AX5nUFG6zATJXUk1CtR6ZMcvv+WTvit+Kz6NHmUkGwMCy0/pRWDJ BzE+4J583fEiZNWsYDvyQUvJUhoBfkDjP0RnpAuCwbt8TiD27w/GdAXphjoW3ycQVMMY njsnJasc4lmVqv39IPOoNpaQXf7D0kyNja68Rbcn2c/neXWtrR60Rymg6sGqeo9YGZZD 9rEA== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.42.150.131 with SMTP id a3mr7347785icw.8.1362975580465; Sun, 10 Mar 2013 21:19:40 -0700 (PDT) Sender: jdavidlists@gmail.com Received: by 10.42.153.133 with HTTP; Sun, 10 Mar 2013 21:19:40 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <513C1629.50501@caltel.com> <513CD9AB.5080903@caltel.com> <513CE369.4030303@caltel.com> <1362951595.99445.2.camel@btw.pki2.com> Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2013 00:19:40 -0400 X-Google-Sender-Auth: eGnFIBBt0Gm9FcXDKjkiA8kgoS8 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Aligning MBR for ZFS boot help From: J David To: Warren Block Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.14 Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Filesystems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2013 04:19:40 -0000 On Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 8:39 PM, Warren Block wrote: > If FreeBSD had a way to turn off the strict enforcement of CHS values for > MBR, it would make that unnecessary. > The solution to that for a drive of this size *might* be to use fdisk instead of gpart to do the partitioning, and just flat out lie to it about the geometry when it asks you if you want to use something other than what it read. (Which was also a lie anyway.)