Pete French <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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.
Certainly the _correct_ thing to do is to create a partition, and newfs that. However, it's not entirely clear why the OP is not getting by with this mistake, because newfs (for a UFS filesystem) doesn't write anything ahead of the superblock -- unless asked to install bootblocks. _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
