Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2013 14:50:29 -0500 From: "Mike." <the.lists@mgm51.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: re: [10.0RC2] partition labels during install Message-ID: <201312231450290379.01628D38@smtp.24cl.home> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1312231217460.11389@wonkity.com> References: <201312221402470675.0128102B@smtp.24cl.home> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1312221354210.4052@wonkity.com> <201312231026080790.007089CA@smtp.24cl.home> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1312231217460.11389@wonkity.com>
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On 12/23/2013 at 12:21 PM Warren Block wrote: |On Mon, 23 Dec 2013, Mike. wrote: | | [snip] | |>> You did not say whether this was a GPT disk, |> |> Is there a way to check this? | |The first line of 'gpart show' output for a disk identifies the |partitioning scheme: | % gpart show ada0 | => 34 500118125 ada0 GPT (238G) | ... | |GPT labels can be set with 'gpart modify -l mynewlabel ...'. On MBR, I |use UFS labels where possible, and glabel only where the partition has |no built-in metadata, like swap. ============= So much to learn. ;) OK, I checked, and the disk is a GPT disk. The next time I have a chance to play, I'll try the gpart modify command and see how things go. Thanks.
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