On Thu, 15 Nov 2012, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
I think that I have only two final questions:
1) I can't remember now if the ``guided'' partitioning approach that
is offered to folks who are installing FreeBSD 9.x itself offers a
"GPT" option or not. Does it? (If not, and if MBR is really now
considered antiquated, then I would think that the install process
really should offer a GPT option, if it isn't doing so already.)
GPT is the default for bsdinstall.
2) Not knowing any better, on this fresh install that I'm doing now
(of 9.1-RC3) when it got down to the point where it asked me how I wanted
to partition, I selected the "exit to shell" option. Once I got a
shell prompt, I proceeded to do bascially everything that's suggested
in the "The New Standard Method" section of Warren's nice tutorial.
My assumption was that I could do this, get all of my shiny new GPT
partitions just the way I wanted them, and just simply exit the shell...
an action which, I had hoped, would return me to the install process
at a point where I would then be asked to assign mount points to each
of my newly created GPT partitions, and then, hopefully, the rest of the
install process would proceed in an entirely customary way.
It would, but you have to mount the new filesystems in a certain spot.
bsdinstall shows a prompt about that.
And how exactly do mount points get associated with partitions (in particular
GPT partitions) anyway? Are these just another partition attribute? The
gpart(8) man page is also utterly silent on the subject of mount points,
even though they are quite obviously a rather critical component of what
it takes to make a partition useful on/to FreeBSD.
GPT partitions appear in /dev as the drive name followed by "p" and the
partition number, similar to the old slice/partition notation. So
instead of /dev/ada0s1a, it will typically be /dev/ada0p2. These are
entered in /etc/fstab as normal.
My guide uses GPT labels, which are superior in many ways to fixed
device names, but also not really covered by that article.
P.S. Assigning mount points appears to be one thing that the new swiss-
army-knife of gpart _cannot_ do. Given that, I have to ask...
What if any command line tool is available to associate partitions with
mount points?
/etc/fstab, same as normal.
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