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
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
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
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 =