2012/11/19 Warren Block <wbl...@wonkity.com>: > On Mon, 19 Nov 2012, Snow Mountains wrote: > >> 2012/11/18 Shane Ambler <free...@shaneware.biz>: >>> >>> On 18/11/2012 06:49, Snow Mountains wrote: >>> >>>> Could you recommend a reliable document on how to do a correct block >>>> alignment for new FreeBSD 9 install? FreeBSD Handbook doesn't >>>> mention this at all, although I can find a lot of (not quite >>>> consistent) advises on the net on how to do it with gpart/newfs. >>> >>> >>> Over the last week there has been a discussion with the subject >>> "Advanced Format Drive ?" on this list that has been discussing that. >>> If you only just signed up then you can search for it in the mail >>> archives. >> >> >> There is a lot of useful info there, and I also found a lot of useful >> tips from Warren Block on how to create swap as a file, how to use >> tmpfs, about noatime etc. > > > I didn't say anything about noatime, and personally have not done that on > SSDs. > > >> However, nowhere I can found anything that >> could explain me for sure how to do this BEFORE that: >> >> I've got 240G Kingston SSD. I want this: >> >> win7: >> ada2s1 ~ 30G empty (probably for experimental little win7 install in >> the future) >> >> freebsd9: >> ada2s2a ~3G for / >> ada2s2d ~80G the for /usr (separated for easier backup) >> ada2s2f ~ the rest for storage >> >> How to do this with gpart, respecting 4g alignment etc? Can anybody >> share the exact commands to achieve this? > > > That's "4K". > > Most of the following is shown in the new Handbook gmirror section: > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/geom-mirror.html > > Create the MBR partitioning scheme: > > # gpart create -s mbr ada2 > > Add MBR bootcode: > > # gpart bootcode -b /boot/mbr ada2 > > Add the Windows 7 partition, forcing it to start at block 2048 because "-a" > is not going to do what is expected for slices because of decades-old CHS > stuff: > > # gpart add -t ntfs -b 2048 -s 30g ada2 > > Create the FreeBSD slice: > > # gpart create -s bsd ada2s1 > > Set this slice active and add FreeBSD bootcode: > > # gpart set -a active -i 1 ada2s1
Warren, great, thank you! Just one small problem. Here I got this: # gpart create -s bsd ada2s1 gpart: geom 'ada2s1': File exists # gpart set -a active -i 1 ada2s1 gpart: index '1': No such file or directory Expected? Anyway, is it any way to but FreeBSD on something like s2? Sergi _______________________________________________ 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"
