In message <[email protected]>, Warren Block <[email protected]> wrote:
>On Wed, 28 Nov 2012, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: > >> >> In message <[email protected]>, >> Warren Block <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>>> I tried to do as you suggest and change the partition type to freebsd-ufs, >>>> but there's a problem... >>>> >>>> # gpart modify -i 1 -t freebsd-ufs /dev/da1 >>>> gpart: Invalid argument >>> >>> da1 is the drive. da1s1 is the first slice. >> >> Yeabut that's what I thought that the -i option was for! I mean isn't the >> parameter for >> that supposed to tell gpart which sub-part of the whole "geom" thing that is >> named on >> the command line is supposed to be modified? > >Doh, you are right, and I misread it. It's the type that is the >problem: freebsd-ufs is a not an MBR partition type, it should be just >freebsd: > ># gpart modify -i1 -t freebsd /dev/da1 Thank you again Warren. Success! I am a happy camper! % gpart show /dev/da1 => 63 1953525104 da1 MBR (931G) 63 1985 - free - (992k) 2048 1953519616 1 freebsd (931G) 1953521664 3503 - free - (1.7M) _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
