Re: Installer: missing GEOM/gpart capabilities slicing disk?

2009-11-09 Thread Daniel O'Connor
[ -current CC dropped ] On Mon, 9 Nov 2009, O. Hartmann wrote: > I try to install a fresh new FreeBSD 8.0-RC2 (from snapshot-DVD) on a > barndnew harddrive. As far as I recall partitioning a disk is now > done via gpart and the limitation of having only 8 (-2) partitions > from a thro

Installer: missing GEOM/gpart capabilities slicing disk?

2009-11-09 Thread O. Hartmann
Hello. I try to install a fresh new FreeBSD 8.0-RC2 (from snapshot-DVD) on a barndnew harddrive. As far as I recall partitioning a disk is now done via gpart and the limitation of having only 8 (-2) partitions from a through h except b and c is now obsoleted. When dropping into the

Re: gpart mbr scheme

2009-10-11 Thread Anselm Strauss
09, at 22:08 , Anselm Strauss wrote: Hi, I'm trying to partition a compact flash card with gpart. When I want to create a new MBR scheme it always complains: -> gpart create -s mbr da0 gpart: scheme 'mbr': Invalid argument The GPT scheme works fine: -> gpart create -s

gpart mbr scheme

2009-10-10 Thread Anselm Strauss
Hi, I'm trying to partition a compact flash card with gpart. When I want to create a new MBR scheme it always complains: -> gpart create -s mbr da0 gpart: scheme 'mbr': Invalid argument The GPT scheme works fine: -> gpart create -s gpt da0 da0 created -> gpart sho

Re: documentation for gpart(8)/GPT?

2009-07-28 Thread Robert Huff
Vincent Hoffman writes: > > Is there anything - official, or unofficial but reliable - about > > working with gpart/GPT?I've read the man page, and am still a little > > wobbly. > > I found > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-geom/2009

Re: documentation for gpart(8)/GPT?

2009-07-28 Thread Vincent Hoffman
Robert Huff wrote: > Is there anything - official, or unofficial but reliable - about > working with gpart/GPT?I've read the man page, and am still a little > wobbly. > > I found http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-geom/2009-April/003440.html reasonably

Re: documentation for gpart(8)/GPT?

2009-07-28 Thread Robert Huff
Anton Shterenlikht wrote: Have a look at http://eis.bris.ac.uk/~mexas/geom-mirror.html This is a proposed addition to the handbook. There is a gpart example. By the way, I'd welcome any feedback on this modified section. First iussue: the "Next" link in the upper ri

Re: documentation for gpart(8)/GPT?

2009-07-28 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 09:54:53AM -0400, Robert Huff wrote: > Is there anything - official, or unofficial but reliable - about > working with gpart/GPT? I've read the man page, and am still a little > wobbly. Have a look at http://eis.bris.ac.uk/~mexas/geom-mirror.

documentation for gpart(8)/GPT?

2009-07-28 Thread Robert Huff
Is there anything - official, or unofficial but reliable - about working with gpart/GPT? I've read the man page, and am still a little wobbly. Robert Huff ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

`gpart show` and secondary GPT header

2009-06-12 Thread Alexander Best
i have a question about gpart. when id do `gpart show ad0` i get the following output: => 34 488394988 ad0 GPT (233G) 34 209714861 freebsd-swap (10G) 20971520 4674235022 freebsd-ufs (223G) which is just what i want. however i'm a bit curious about

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