Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2012 19:28:43 -0700 (MST) From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> To: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> Cc: Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf@rocketmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Partitioning - please not that again Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1212161927150.6122@wonkity.com> In-Reply-To: <20121217021723.35457dbd.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <1355702700.2452.32.camel@q> <20121217021723.35457dbd.freebsd@edvax.de>
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On Mon, 17 Dec 2012, Polytropon wrote: > On Mon, 17 Dec 2012 01:05:00 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >> I startet the FreeBSD installer, chose the shell and then run: >> >> # mount -t ufs /dev/ad0s1 /mnt >> # cd /mnt >> # rm -r * >> # rm -r .* > > That worked? I can hardly understand why /dev/ad0s1 is > mountable (except it's /dev/ad0s1c, i. e. you've initialized > the whole slice, but no swap then). > > A typical construction for FreeBSD would be at least to have > /dev/ad0s1a, mounted to /, being the bootable root partition, > and /dev/ad0s1b, the swap partition. Further partitions could > have been created, e. g. /dev/ad0s1d for /var, and /dev/ad0s1e > for /usr. > > > > >> This does cause the issue I already had before. When I go back to the >> installer, for the partition editor I get: >> >> ada0 298 GB MBR >> ada0s1 57 GB freebsd >> ada0s2 240 GB EBR >> [snip] >> >> gpart show also doesn't display the 3 ufs and the swap any more. > > Did it previously show them? I don't know if gpart supports > BSD-typical partitioning (i. e. partitions inside a slice)... Yes, it does. But it won't show them unless you look in ada0s1. bsdlabel partitions are inside slices.
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