On 19.08.2011 3:11, Kevin Oberman wrote: > I'd strongly suggest avoiding fdisk(8) and using gpart(8) on 8 and > above. It has an > alignment option that makes this all just work and also allows the use of GPT > formatting. (Watch out for GPT on any system that needs to run 32-bit > Windows.) > > gpart create -s gpt ada1 > gpart bootcode -b /boot/pmbr ada1 > gpart add -t freebsd-boot -a 4 -s 128 -b 40 ad0 > gpart bootcode -p /boot/gptboot -i 1 ad0 > gpart add -t freebsd-ufs -a 4 -s 2097152 ada1 > gpart add -t freebsd-swap -a 4 -s 8388608 ada1 > gpart add -t freebsd-ufs -a 4 -s 10485760 ada1 > gpart add -t freebsd-ufs -a 4 -s 1048576 ada1 > gpart add -t freebsd-ufs -a 4 ada1
If you are using gpart with -a option you don't need to specify exactly numbers. And if you want to align your partition to 4096 bytes you should use "-a 4k" or "-a 8". E.g. # gpart add -t freebsd-boot -a 4k -s 64k ad0 -- WBR, Andrey V. Elsukov
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