On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 10:05 PM, Dan Langille <d...@langille.org> wrote:
> Why '-b 34'? Randi pointed me to > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GUID_Partition_Table where it explains what > the first 33 LBA are used for. It's not for us to use here. > > Where SOMEVALUE is the number of blocks to use. I plan not to use all the > available blocks but leave a few hundred MB free at the end. That'll allow > for the variance in HDD size. > > Any suggestions/comments? Is there any advantage to using the -l option on > 'gpart add' instead of the glabel above? > You'll want to make sure your partitions are aligned, discussion here(says 4k drives, but info pertinent to all): http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2010-March/031154.html My understanding is that you weren't booting from zfs, just using it as an data file system. In that case, you'd want to use "gpart add -b 512 ..." or some other multiple of 16. Even 1024 would be a good safe number. Also GPT creates partitions not slices. Your resulting partitions with be labeled something like ad0p1, ad0p2, etc. -- Adam Vande More _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
