I don't think you can use gpart on a slice of an MBR-partitioned disk.
You can run "man gpart" if you didn't already; I didn't see anything to migrate
an MBR partition table to GPT.
The older gpt, which NetBSD still uses, can migrate an MBR partition table to
GPT.
You could try Roderick Smith'
In jan 2009 when /sbin/gpt still existed, this is what I did on a multi-boot
test PC, after creatng unallocated spac, booting into my freebsd partition:
# sysinstall
Disk name: ad0FDISK Partition
Editor
DISK Geometry: 5005 cyls/255 heads/63 sectors = 80405
On 10 October 2011 11:33, n dhert wrote:
> I have a FreebSD 8.2 machine with 12 1-Tb disks used for making backups.
> now I try to create
> # gpart create -s GPT ad0s4
> gpart: provider: Device not configured
(NB I do not have a multi-boot system with an
MBR scheme on it, so I'm not clear on the
I have a FreebSD 8.2 machine with 12 1-Tb disks used for making backups.
This is RAID6 with 2 volumes 200GB (system) and 8800 GB (for backup data)
When this machine was installed (jan 2009), I use standard BSD install to
put the system on the 200GB volume
Then I used /sbin/gpt then to make the se