Re: using /sbin/gpart to add GPT volume

2011-10-11 Thread Thomas Mueller
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's

using /sbin/gpart to add GPT volume

2011-10-10 Thread n dhert
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

Re: using /sbin/gpart to add GPT volume

2011-10-10 Thread ill...@gmail.com
On 10 October 2011 11:33, n dhert ndhert...@gmail.com 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

Re: using /sbin/gpart to add GPT volume

2011-10-10 Thread n dhert
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 =