On 23/07/2010, at 24:56, Volodymyr Kostyrko wrote: > 22.07.2010 06:05, Dan Langille wrote: >> Create a new partition within that scheme: >> >> gpart add -b 34 -s SOMEVALUE -t freebsd-zfs ad0 >> >> 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. > > gpart is not so dumb to not protect this space. If you don't specify -b when > creating first partition it automagically defaults to 34.
Maybe it should default to 40 to get 4k alignment..? (Probably a POLA/legacy issue there) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C _______________________________________________ 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"
