From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jul 5 17:37:01 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 2E39A5D4 for ; Sat, 5 Jul 2014 17:37:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from avasout07.plus.net (avasout07.plus.net [84.93.230.235]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B951C2CB3 for ; Sat, 5 Jul 2014 17:36:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from curlew.milibyte.co.uk ([84.92.153.232]) by avasout07 with smtp id Nhcq1o005516WCc01hcrY8; Sat, 05 Jul 2014 18:36:51 +0100 X-CM-Score: 0.00 X-CNFS-Analysis: v=2.1 cv=O4C3vXNW c=1 sm=1 tr=0 a=lfSX4pPLp9EkufIcToJk/A==:117 a=lfSX4pPLp9EkufIcToJk/A==:17 a=D7rCoLxHAAAA:8 a=0Bzu9jTXAAAA:8 a=NmrU6LgK5G8A:10 a=ZTb9aqGL9YkA:10 a=8nJEP1OIZ-IA:10 a=s9oXJcMGAAAA:8 a=8i6h25G3F6IsH3vm_jAA:9 a=wPNLvfGTeEIA:10 a=uLUL6ODoYCkA:10 Received: from curlew.lan ([192.168.1.13]) by curlew.milibyte.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1X3TtK-0001a4-1t for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 05 Jul 2014 18:36:50 +0100 From: Mike Clarke To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 05 Jul 2014 18:36:48 +0100 Message-ID: <41313663.OOGA20ln3i@curlew.lan> User-Agent: KMail/4.12.5 (FreeBSD/9.1-RELEASE-p14; KDE/4.12.5; amd64; ; ) MIME-Version: 1.0 X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 192.168.1.13 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on curlew.lan X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Subject: Problem with "gpart add" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2 X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes (on curlew.milibyte.co.uk) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 05 Jul 2014 17:37:01 -0000 FreeBSD curlew.lan 9.1-RELEASE-p14 FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE-p14 #0: Tue Jun 3 08:56:12 UTC 2014 root@amd64- builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 I'm experiencing problems setting up a partition in some free space between two existing partitions on a drive: This is the current setup: curlew:/root# gpart show ada2 => 63 625142385 ada2 MBR (298G) 63 125829081 1 freebsd (60G) 125829144 186731496 - free - (89G) 312560640 312576705 2 ntfs (149G) 625137345 5103 - free - (2.5M) I'd assumed that I could do this, but it fails curlew:/root# gpart add -t freebsd-zfs -b 125829144 -s 186731496 ada2 gpart: Invalid argument What am I doing wrong? -- Mike Clarke