From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 29 02:10:56 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [8.8.178.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3785D9CD for ; Fri, 29 Mar 2013 02:10:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from quartz@sneakertech.com) Received: from relay03.pair.com (relay03.pair.com [209.68.5.17]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D34D2309 for ; Fri, 29 Mar 2013 02:10:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 55992 invoked by uid 0); 29 Mar 2013 02:10:48 -0000 Received: from 173.48.104.62 (HELO ?10.2.2.1?) (173.48.104.62) by relay03.pair.com with SMTP; 29 Mar 2013 02:10:48 -0000 X-pair-Authenticated: 173.48.104.62 Message-ID: <5154F828.8010202@sneakertech.com> Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2013 22:10:48 -0400 From: Quartz User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:10.0.2) Gecko/20120216 Thunderbird/10.0.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 CC: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Where's the metadata? References: <26967.1364520556@server1.tristatelogic.com> <5154F551.6050904@clari.net.au> In-Reply-To: <5154F551.6050904@clari.net.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2013 02:10:56 -0000 > Did you try using fdisk? Don't use fdisk, it's waaaaaay out of date, doesn't work with a lot of modern large drives, and has horribly arcane syntax. Modern versions of gpart support MBR, so there's basically no reason to suffer through fdisk anymore. ______________________________________ it has a certain smooth-brained appeal