Re: adding new disk 2TB, gpt?
Thanks for your answer! I am trying out gpart. On an old PC with 38 GB disk, I have triple boot Windows, OpenSuSE and FreeBSD-8.2. I created an unalloated space of 973 MB at the end. To see the actuel disk geometry, I used FreeBSDs sysinstall # sysinstall Disk name: ad0FDISK Partition Editor DISK Geometry: 79780 cyls/16 heads/63 sectors = 80418240 sectors (39266MB) Offset Size(ST)End Name PType Desc Subtype Flags 0 63 62- 12 unused0 63 22233897 22233959ad0s1 4 NTFS/HPFS/QNX7 22233960 29639736 51873695ad0s3 8freebsd 165 51873696189 51873884- 12 unused0 51873885 26539380 78413264ad0s2 4 extended DOS, LBA 15 784132651992060 80405324ad0s4 4 ext2fs 131 80405325 12915 80418239- 12 unused0 ad0s1 is my Windows, ad0s2 is the extended partition where SuSE resides (swap and / partition) ad0s3 is my FreeBSD-8.2 (with sections a, e, f, d for /, /tmp, /usr, /var) and ad0s4 is the new freed space of 1992060 sectors = 973 MB I tried # gpart create -s gpt ad0s4 gpart: provider: Device not configured ( gpart create -s gtp /dev/ad0s4 : same error) # gpart show = 63 80418177 ad0 MBR (38G) 63 222338971 ntfs (11G) 22233960 296397363 freebsd [active] (14G) 51873696 189 - free - (95K) 51873885 265393802 !15 (13G) 78413265 19920604 !131 (973M) 80405325 12915 - free - (6.3M) = 0 26539380 ad0s2 EBR (13G) 0 2072385 1 !130 (1.0G) 2072385 18249840 32896 !131 (8.7G) 2035 6152895 322576 !131 (2.9G) 26475120 64260 - free - (31M) = 0 29639736 ad0s3 BSD (14G) 0 1048576 1 freebsd-ufs (512M) 1048576 1994384 2 freebsd-swap (974M) 3042960 3092480 4 freebsd-ufs (1.5G) 6135440 1048576 5 freebsd-ufs (512M) 7184016 22455720 6 freebsd-ufs (11G) # gpart create -s gpt ad4 gpart: provider 'ad4': Invalid argument how do I address the 974 MB partition ??? 2011/5/16 Robert Simmons rsimmo...@gmail.com On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 10:27 AM, n dhert ndhert...@gmail.com wrote: I have a running FreeBSD-8.2-amd system, FreeBSD was installed in jan 2009 (then FreeBSD 7.0), which a fisk disk of 200 GB for /, swap /usr /var /tmp. Later that month, I added a 9 TB disk using /sbin/gpt (since sysinstall uses bsdlabel/fdisk, it can't create disks larger than 2 TB) I want to add an extra 2TB disk... and thought to use gpt again as I did in the past .. The FreeBSD book (in its 2011 version), section 18.3 still refers to using gpt for disks 2TB but the link gpt(8) leads to nowhere and /sbin/gpt no longer exists in FreeBSD ! There seem to be two alternatives: 1) /sbin/gpart, of which the man page is quite similar to what gpt used to be, but tells me it is ''for disk partitoning GEOM class, whereas gpt man pages (in 2009) said: gpt - GUID partition table maintenance utility. 2) a port sysutils/gdisk of which the Long Description says: Edit GUID partition table (GPT) definitions in Linux, FreeBSD, MacOS X or Windows but its web site shows a completely different command line interface, not resembling the old gpt at all.. What is exactly that difference between GEOM and GUID ? I'd like to have things as similar as possible .. Can I use /sbin/gpart for the extra 9 GB disk ? or do I have to stick with GUID and use gdisk ? gpart create -s gpt ad0 is the command you want to use. Just replace ad0 with your device node. Also, gpart show will give a list of slices and partitions. You will then want to do: gpart add -s size -t type ad0 The size and type syntax are in the gpart man page. If you want it bootable you will need a small partition at the beginning of the disk: gpart add -s 128k -t freebsd-boot ad0 gpart bootcode -b /boot/pmbr -p /boot/gptboot -i 1 ad0 You may adjust the size to shrink it to exactly fit the files, but I think if you're working in TBs you can spare a few wasted k. I submitted a PR to get the handbook updated to reflect gpart(8). Cheers, Rob ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: adding new disk 2TB, gpt?
On Tuesday 17 of May 2011 15:19:40, n dhert wrote: Thanks for your answer! I am trying out gpart. On an old PC with 38 GB disk, I have triple boot Windows, OpenSuSE and FreeBSD-8.2. I created an unalloated space of 973 MB at the end. To see the actuel disk geometry, I used FreeBSDs sysinstall # sysinstall Disk name: ad0FDISK Partition Editor DISK Geometry: 79780 cyls/16 heads/63 sectors = 80418240 sectors (39266MB) Offset Size(ST)End Name PType Desc Subtype Flags 0 63 62- 12 unused0 63 22233897 22233959ad0s1 4 NTFS/HPFS/QNX7 22233960 29639736 51873695ad0s3 8freebsd 165 51873696189 51873884- 12 unused0 51873885 26539380 78413264ad0s2 4 extended DOS, LBA 15 784132651992060 80405324ad0s4 4 ext2fs 131 80405325 12915 80418239- 12 unused0 ad0s1 is my Windows, ad0s2 is the extended partition where SuSE resides (swap and / partition) ad0s3 is my FreeBSD-8.2 (with sections a, e, f, d for /, /tmp, /usr, /var) and ad0s4 is the new freed space of 1992060 sectors = 973 MB I tried # gpart create -s gpt ad0s4 gpart: provider: Device not configured ( gpart create -s gtp /dev/ad0s4 : same error) # gpart show = 63 80418177 ad0 MBR (38G) 63 222338971 ntfs (11G) 22233960 296397363 freebsd [active] (14G) 51873696 189 - free - (95K) 51873885 265393802 !15 (13G) 78413265 19920604 !131 (973M) 80405325 12915 - free - (6.3M) = 0 26539380 ad0s2 EBR (13G) 0 2072385 1 !130 (1.0G) 2072385 18249840 32896 !131 (8.7G) 2035 6152895 322576 !131 (2.9G) 26475120 64260 - free - (31M) = 0 29639736 ad0s3 BSD (14G) 0 1048576 1 freebsd-ufs (512M) 1048576 1994384 2 freebsd-swap (974M) 3042960 3092480 4 freebsd-ufs (1.5G) 6135440 1048576 5 freebsd-ufs (512M) 7184016 22455720 6 freebsd-ufs (11G) # gpart create -s gpt ad4 gpart: provider 'ad4': Invalid argument how do I address the 974 MB partition ??? You can't create gpt table on top of existing MBR table. If you want to use gpt you need to have clean hard drive for that(removed all partitions and destroy current table) If you just want to add ad0s4 you should do gpart add ... Maciej ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: adding new disk 2TB, gpt?
On 17 May 2011 14:40, Maciej Milewski m...@dat.pl wrote: On Tuesday 17 of May 2011 15:19:40, n dhert wrote: Thanks for your answer! I am trying out gpart. On an old PC with 38 GB disk, I have triple boot Windows, OpenSuSE and FreeBSD-8.2. I created an unalloated space of 973 MB at the end. To see the actuel disk geometry, I used FreeBSDs sysinstall # sysinstall Disk name: ad0FDISK Partition Editor DISK Geometry: 79780 cyls/16 heads/63 sectors = 80418240 sectors (39266MB) Offset Size(ST)End Name PType Desc Subtype Flags 0 63 62- 12 unused0 63 22233897 22233959ad0s1 4 NTFS/HPFS/QNX7 22233960 29639736 51873695ad0s3 8freebsd 165 51873696189 51873884- 12 unused0 51873885 26539380 78413264ad0s2 4 extended DOS, LBA 15 784132651992060 80405324ad0s4 4 ext2fs 131 80405325 12915 80418239- 12 unused0 ad0s1 is my Windows, ad0s2 is the extended partition where SuSE resides (swap and / partition) ad0s3 is my FreeBSD-8.2 (with sections a, e, f, d for /, /tmp, /usr, /var) and ad0s4 is the new freed space of 1992060 sectors = 973 MB I tried # gpart create -s gpt ad0s4 gpart: provider: Device not configured ( gpart create -s gtp /dev/ad0s4 : same error) # gpart show = 63 80418177 ad0 MBR (38G) 63 222338971 ntfs (11G) 22233960 296397363 freebsd [active] (14G) 51873696 189 - free - (95K) 51873885 265393802 !15 (13G) 78413265 19920604 !131 (973M) 80405325 12915 - free - (6.3M) = 0 26539380 ad0s2 EBR (13G) 0 2072385 1 !130 (1.0G) 2072385 18249840 32896 !131 (8.7G) 2035 6152895 322576 !131 (2.9G) 26475120 64260 - free - (31M) = 0 29639736 ad0s3 BSD (14G) 0 1048576 1 freebsd-ufs (512M) 1048576 1994384 2 freebsd-swap (974M) 3042960 3092480 4 freebsd-ufs (1.5G) 6135440 1048576 5 freebsd-ufs (512M) 7184016 22455720 6 freebsd-ufs (11G) # gpart create -s gpt ad4 gpart: provider 'ad4': Invalid argument how do I address the 974 MB partition ??? You can't create gpt table on top of existing MBR table. If you want to use gpt you need to have clean hard drive for that(removed all partitions and destroy current table) If you just want to add ad0s4 you should do gpart add ... Maciej ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org sounds like you maybe using some kind of LUN to generate a 9 TB disk. If I have misunderstood this though and you are using the advanced format drives (generally satas above 1.5tb) then make sure you 4k align any partitions you create ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: adding new disk 2TB, gpt?
On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 9:40 AM, Maciej Milewski m...@dat.pl wrote: On Tuesday 17 of May 2011 15:19:40, n dhert wrote: Thanks for your answer! I am trying out gpart. On an old PC with 38 GB disk, I have triple boot Windows, OpenSuSE and FreeBSD-8.2. I created an unalloated space of 973 MB at the end. To see the actuel disk geometry, I used FreeBSDs sysinstall # sysinstall Disk name: ad0 FDISK Partition Editor DISK Geometry: 79780 cyls/16 heads/63 sectors = 80418240 sectors (39266MB) Offset Size(ST) End Name PType Desc Subtype Flags 0 63 62 - 12 unused 0 63 22233897 22233959 ad0s1 4 NTFS/HPFS/QNX 7 22233960 29639736 51873695 ad0s3 8 freebsd 165 51873696 189 51873884 - 12 unused 0 51873885 26539380 78413264 ad0s2 4 extended DOS, LBA 15 78413265 1992060 80405324 ad0s4 4 ext2fs 131 80405325 12915 80418239 - 12 unused 0 ad0s1 is my Windows, ad0s2 is the extended partition where SuSE resides (swap and / partition) ad0s3 is my FreeBSD-8.2 (with sections a, e, f, d for /, /tmp, /usr, /var) and ad0s4 is the new freed space of 1992060 sectors = 973 MB I tried # gpart create -s gpt ad0s4 gpart: provider: Device not configured ( gpart create -s gtp /dev/ad0s4 : same error) # gpart show = 63 80418177 ad0 MBR (38G) 63 22233897 1 ntfs (11G) 22233960 29639736 3 freebsd [active] (14G) 51873696 189 - free - (95K) 51873885 26539380 2 !15 (13G) 78413265 1992060 4 !131 (973M) 80405325 12915 - free - (6.3M) = 0 26539380 ad0s2 EBR (13G) 0 2072385 1 !130 (1.0G) 2072385 18249840 32896 !131 (8.7G) 2035 6152895 322576 !131 (2.9G) 26475120 64260 - free - (31M) = 0 29639736 ad0s3 BSD (14G) 0 1048576 1 freebsd-ufs (512M) 1048576 1994384 2 freebsd-swap (974M) 3042960 3092480 4 freebsd-ufs (1.5G) 6135440 1048576 5 freebsd-ufs (512M) 7184016 22455720 6 freebsd-ufs (11G) # gpart create -s gpt ad4 gpart: provider 'ad4': Invalid argument how do I address the 974 MB partition ??? You can't create gpt table on top of existing MBR table. If you want to use gpt you need to have clean hard drive for that(removed all partitions and destroy current table) If you just want to add ad0s4 you should do gpart add ... Right. If you do this, you will end up with ad0p1, ad0p2 etc each with an appropriate type (freebsd-boot, freebsd-swap, freebsd-ufs) and you can then newfs the gpt partition. Needless to say, backup all your data. Rob ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
adding new disk 2TB, gpt?
I have a running FreeBSD-8.2-amd system, FreeBSD was installed in jan 2009 (then FreeBSD 7.0), which a fisk disk of 200 GB for /, swap /usr /var /tmp. Later that month, I added a 9 TB disk using /sbin/gpt (since sysinstall uses bsdlabel/fdisk, it can't create disks larger than 2 TB) I want to add an extra 2TB disk... and thought to use gpt again as I did in the past .. The FreeBSD book (in its 2011 version), section 18.3 still refers to using gpt for disks 2TB but the link gpt(8) leads to nowhere and /sbin/gpt no longer exists in FreeBSD ! There seem to be two alternatives: 1) /sbin/gpart, of which the man page is quite similar to what gpt used to be, but tells me it is ''for disk partitoning GEOM class, whereas gpt man pages (in 2009) said: gpt - GUID partition table maintenance utility. 2) a port sysutils/gdisk of which the Long Description says: Edit GUID partition table (GPT) definitions in Linux, FreeBSD, MacOS X or Windows but its web site shows a completely different command line interface, not resembling the old gpt at all.. What is exactly that difference between GEOM and GUID ? I'd like to have things as similar as possible .. Can I use /sbin/gpart for the extra 9 GB disk ? or do I have to stick with GUID and use gdisk ? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: adding new disk 2TB, gpt?
On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 10:27 AM, n dhert ndhert...@gmail.com wrote: I have a running FreeBSD-8.2-amd system, FreeBSD was installed in jan 2009 (then FreeBSD 7.0), which a fisk disk of 200 GB for /, swap /usr /var /tmp. Later that month, I added a 9 TB disk using /sbin/gpt (since sysinstall uses bsdlabel/fdisk, it can't create disks larger than 2 TB) I want to add an extra 2TB disk... and thought to use gpt again as I did in the past .. The FreeBSD book (in its 2011 version), section 18.3 still refers to using gpt for disks 2TB but the link gpt(8) leads to nowhere and /sbin/gpt no longer exists in FreeBSD ! There seem to be two alternatives: 1) /sbin/gpart, of which the man page is quite similar to what gpt used to be, but tells me it is ''for disk partitoning GEOM class, whereas gpt man pages (in 2009) said: gpt - GUID partition table maintenance utility. 2) a port sysutils/gdisk of which the Long Description says: Edit GUID partition table (GPT) definitions in Linux, FreeBSD, MacOS X or Windows but its web site shows a completely different command line interface, not resembling the old gpt at all.. What is exactly that difference between GEOM and GUID ? I'd like to have things as similar as possible .. Can I use /sbin/gpart for the extra 9 GB disk ? or do I have to stick with GUID and use gdisk ? gpart create -s gpt ad0 is the command you want to use. Just replace ad0 with your device node. Also, gpart show will give a list of slices and partitions. You will then want to do: gpart add -s size -t type ad0 The size and type syntax are in the gpart man page. If you want it bootable you will need a small partition at the beginning of the disk: gpart add -s 128k -t freebsd-boot ad0 gpart bootcode -b /boot/pmbr -p /boot/gptboot -i 1 ad0 You may adjust the size to shrink it to exactly fit the files, but I think if you're working in TBs you can spare a few wasted k. I submitted a PR to get the handbook updated to reflect gpart(8). Cheers, Rob ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
