Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2011 03:10:48 -0500 From: CyberLeo Kitsana <cyberleo@cyberleo.net> To: Helmut Schneider <jumper99@gmx.de> Cc: CyberLeo <cyberleo@cyberleo.net>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gpart questions Message-ID: <4DB67E08.4060604@cyberleo.net> In-Reply-To: <xn0hd96o51inxwz001@news.gmane.org> References: <xn0hd96o51inxwz001@news.gmane.org>
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On 04/24/2011 12:24 PM, Helmut Schneider wrote:
> Hi,
>
> i'm playing around with (virtual) disks within a VMware ESXi 4.1 server:
> ...
> So, what did sysinstall that gpart didn't?
You forgot to gpart create the inner BSD label on da1s1.
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# mdconfig -a -t swap -s 512M
md0
# gpart show md0
gpart: No such geom: md0.
# gpart create -s mbr md0
md0 created
# gpart show md0
=> 9 1048563 md0 MBR (512M)
9 1048563 - free - (512M)
# gpart add -b 63 -s 1048500 -t freebsd md0
md0s1 added
# gpart show md0
=> 9 1048563 md0 MBR (512M)
9 54 - free - (27K)
63 1048500 1 freebsd (512M)
1048563 9 - free - (4.5K)
# gpart show md0s1
gpart: No such geom: md0s1.
# gpart create -s bsd md0s1
md0s1 created
# gpart show md0s1
=> 0 1048500 md0s1 BSD (512M)
0 1048500 - free - (512M)
# gpart add -b 16 -s 1048484 -t freebsd-ufs md0s1
md0s1a added
# gpart show md0s1
=> 0 1048500 md0s1 BSD (512M)
0 16 - free - (8.0K)
16 1048484 1 freebsd-ufs (512M)
# ls -la /dev/md0*
crw-r----- 1 root operator 0, 153 Apr 26 02:57 /dev/md0
crw-r----- 1 root operator 0, 157 Apr 26 02:58 /dev/md0s1
crw-r----- 1 root operator 0, 159 Apr 26 03:03 /dev/md0s1a
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