On 06/04/12 15:25, Warren Block wrote: > On Mon, 4 Jun 2012, Gary Aitken wrote: > >>> What part of the Handbook? I would suggest using gpart(8), it makes GPT >>> partitions easy, and nasty old MBR partitions aren't any worse than with >>> fdisk/bsdlabel. >> >> 19.3.2 > > That's the Storage chapter, section "Command Line Utilities". That is yet > another section that needs updating. In the meantime, here:
I was making some notes as I went along about that. I did decide to switch, thanks. > http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/disksetup.html > > The second half of that covers using gpart(8). I suggest using GPT partitions > unless your configuration does not allow them (gmirror, for example). Probably should have read mail sooner... I found the wikipedia article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GUID_Partition_Table exactly what I needed to make sense of gpart. Once you understand how the dang thing is laid out, the commands make sense. Without that, it's pretty difficult (for me, anyway) to figure out how it knows what it needs to know to get it done. Thanks _______________________________________________ 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"
