Martin Husemann <mar...@duskware.de> wrote: > On Wed, Sep 04, 2024 at 08:58:39AM -0700, beaker wrote: > > Some questions: > > 1) is MBR -> GPT migration as simple as running '$ gpt migrate /dev/rwd0' > > or is something else involved ? > > If you do not want to boot from the disk: yes. > If you want it bootable it may be necessary to install new boot code > (gpt biosboot....). > > You did not show disklabel output, but you said no swap. Otherwise you > will have to manually adjust for the disklabel contents (which get > lost in the migration). > > > 2) is there any benefit to doing this migration ? > > No, unless you want to share the disk with other operating systems and > create additional "foreign" partitions on it. > > > 3) does my disc look like it meets the before & aft partitions space > > requirements (see below) ? > > Yes. The critical parts (with gpt defaults, can be fine tuned manually) > are 34 free sectors before the first partition and 33 sectors at the end > of the disk. Both are available on your disk.
After posting I realized I could just try this out in a VM; the following appeared to work fine on a small VM MBR disc with one FFS partition and some extra space fore and aft: $ gpt migrate -A wd0 It did throw an error message but still did the migration. Afterwards I editted /etc/fstab like so: $ sed -i 's/wd0a/dk0/' /etc/fstab Thanks for all the feedback. Regards, -B
