Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2011 13:04:25 +0000 From: Pete French <petefrench@ingresso.co.uk> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, lists@c0mplx.org Subject: Re: 3TB disc and block alignment Message-ID: <E1Prruj-000D2F-ML@dilbert.ticketswitch.com> In-Reply-To: <20110222125348.GV34314@home.opsec.eu>
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> Why may it hurt ? How may it hurt ? Which sector is written to by > this 'gpart' command ? > > As far as I understand, GPT writes some stuff at the beginning and > the end of the harddisk. Yup, this is true. > How/why will the newfs overwrite those parts ? Because you are also giving it the whole hard disc to write to, instead of a partition within the hard disc, so you will end up scribbling on what you wrote with the gpart command. -pete.
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