On 01/30/13 17:20, Warren Block wrote: > On Wed, 30 Jan 2013, Gary Aitken wrote:
>> clean up (delete) the original partitions >> gpart destroy ada3 > > These two steps can be replaced with > gpart destroy -F ada3 I prefer doing it piecemeal to see what's happening when along the way. >> gpart create -s GPT ada3 >> gpart bootcode -b /boot/pmbr ada3 >> gpart add -t freebsd-boot -i 1 -s 512K -l gptboot ada3 >> gpart bootcode -p /boot/gptboot -i 1 ada3 > > I do the bootcode in one step: > gpart bootcode -b /boot/pmbr -p /boot/gptboot -i 1 ada3 Again, I prefer incremental steps so it's more obvious what any diagnostics are referring to, if they should appear. >> gpart add -t freebsd-ufs -a 4K -b 1M -s 4G -i 2 -l fbsdroot ada3 # / >> gpart add -t freebsd-swap -a 4K -s 2G -i 3 -l fbsdswap ada3 # swap >> gpart add -t freebsd-ufs -a 4K -s 2G -i 4 -l fbsdvar ada3 # /var >> gpart add -t freebsd-ufs -a 4K -s 2G -i 5 -l fbsdtmp ada3 # /tmp >> gpart add -t freebsd-ufs -a 4K -i 6 -l fbsdusr ada3 # /usr > > It's not necessary to use partition numbers with "add", gpart will just use > the next one available. True, but if things get out of order for some reason, then you have a mess. > Here are my notes: > http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/disksetup.html Thanks, already read that and bookmarked it quite a while ago. _______________________________________________ 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"
