Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2012 10:41:30 +0200 From: Jens Schweikhardt <schweikh@schweikhardt.net> To: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> Cc: questions@freebsd.org, Gary Aitken <ah@dreamchaser.org> Subject: Re: How to use an external USB3.0 drive with 4k sectors? Message-ID: <20120604084130.GA2837@schweikhardt.net> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1206040657480.3685@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> References: <20120531155704.GA2828@schweikhardt.net> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1206011040190.2497@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <20120601100107.GB2721@schweikhardt.net> <4FC8FE11.3020700@dreamchaser.org> <20120603202624.GA4999@schweikhardt.net> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1206040657480.3685@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
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On Mon, Jun 04, 2012 at 06:58:07AM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote: # > # > 2. Replace the vendor installed NTFS with a UFS file system. # > # > $ newfs -U /dev/da1s1 # > # > (No, I didn't bother to create BSD partitions) # # but why still create msdos partition? I didn't create one, I just left it as is. For some reason fdisk would error out and sysinstall's fdisk would compute bogus capacities: use the number of sectors and multiply them by 512 instead of 4096--that scared me to the point I didn't want to have fdisk write to the disk. Next on my TODO list: learn about gpart. Regards, Jens -- Jens Schweikhardt http://www.schweikhardt.net/ SIGSIG -- signature too long (core dumped)
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