Re: slice and partition in FreeBSD 9.1
On Tue, 28 May 2013, Polytropon wrote: See this comparison: http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/disksetup.html http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/geom-glabel.html http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/disks-adding.html There is a little information on the common types here, too: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/bsdinstall-partitioning.html#bsdinstall-part-manual Still you have the choice to use MBR partitioning if this is a requirement (maybe due to hardware that has problems booting GPT partitioned media? who knows). Some BIOS systems think GPT partitions mean the system is running UEFI. On those system, MBR is required to boot correctly. I think this is still a problem with the Thinkpad T4xx and T5xx models, possibly others. ___ 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: slice and partition in FreeBSD 9.1
On Mon, 27 May 2013 21:13:44 -0700 (PDT), J Ronald wrote:
> During the installation of FreeBSD 9.1 using bsdintall, it seems the concept
> has been changed.
> In the "Partition Editor", using GPT, no slice concept, no partition that
> using a/b/c/d.
That is correct. Instead of the MBR-style partition names
(like da0s1a or da0a), GPT-style partition names (like da0p1)
are being used. As known, they carry a UFS file system.
> Is the partition mechanism simplified here?
No. It's a _different_ mechanism.
MBR: The old system: fdisk, bsdlabel, newfs -> slices & partitions
(slices optional: dedicated)
GPT: The new system: gpart, newfs -> partitions ("different kind of"
compared to MBR, of course)
See this comparison:
http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/disksetup.html
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/geom-glabel.html
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/disks-adding.html
Still you have the choice to use MBR partitioning if this is
a requirement (maybe due to hardware that has problems booting
GPT partitioned media? who knows).
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Polytropon
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slice and partition in FreeBSD 9.1
During the installation of FreeBSD 9.1 using bsdintall, it seems the concept has been changed. In the "Partition Editor", using GPT, no slice concept, no partition that using a/b/c/d. Is the partition mechanism simplified here? ___ 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"
