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HC3zmphcCzTD_56p4BkgVTY9HKEREsyDRHn0Ahx3s1g-- X-Yahoo-SMTP: BeMCPs2swBABTJ3kAeEiC_hE0mz8jRexLddJfD8pI2j32fOacjBmXg-- Received: from [85.182.21.51] (ralf.mardorf@85.182.21.51 with login) by smtp116.mail.ukl.yahoo.com with SMTP; 27 Nov 2012 23:06:45 -0800 PST Message-ID: <1354086404.2528.89.camel@q> Subject: Re: How to create a partition for FreeBSD 9.0? From: Ralf Mardorf To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2012 08:06:44 +0100 In-Reply-To: References: <1353795280.2662.12.camel@q> <20121124233520.7ad4b4be.freebsd@edvax.de> <1353798889.2662.46.camel@q> <20121125002717.11a61c8d.freebsd@edvax.de> <1353807268.2773.16.camel@q> <20121125131908.671f6d31.freebsd@edvax.de> <1353846552.2508.23.camel@q> <1353877782.2508.225.camel@q> <1354029192.2827.11.camel@q> <1354046327.2528.15.camel@q> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.6.0-0ubuntu3 Mime-Version: 1.0 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: Wed, 28 Nov 2012 07:06:53 -0000 On Tue, 2012-11-27 at 17:04 -0700, Warren Block wrote: > > # gpart create -s bsd ada0s1 > > gpart: geom 'ada0s1': File exists > > Sorry, no idea on that. Because of the extended partitions, maybe. Thank you, so this should work and if it doesn't work, I can't install FreeBSD? Anything else I can try? FWIW on this machine are Linux installs only, used file systems are ext3, ext4 and ntfs [1]. Regards, Ralf [1] spinymouse@q:~$ sudo fdisk -l Disk /dev/sda: 320.1 GB, 320072933376 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders, total 625142448 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0x000f2fc6 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 63 121274684 60637311 a5 FreeBSD /dev/sda2 * 121274746 625137344 251931299+ 5 Extended /dev/sda5 121274748 183751469 31238361 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT /dev/sda6 183751533 246421034 31334751 83 Linux /dev/sda7 246421098 309283379 31431141 83 Linux /dev/sda8 309283443 361967615 26342086+ 83 Linux /dev/sda9 361969664 435617791 36824064 83 Linux /dev/sda10 435618603 440164934 2273166 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/sda11 440164998 561873374 60854188+ 83 Linux /dev/sda12 561873438 569215079 3670821 83 Linux /dev/sda13 569215143 615514409 23149633+ 83 Linux /dev/sda14 615514473 625137344 4811436 83 Linux Disk /dev/sdb: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders, total 976773168 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0x000525e5 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdb1 63 42973874 21486906 83 Linux /dev/sdb2 42973936 976768064 466897064+ 5 Extended /dev/sdb5 42973938 85931684 21478873+ 83 Linux /dev/sdb6 85931748 128696714 21382483+ 83 Linux /dev/sdb7 128696778 133789319 2546271 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/sdb8 133789383 175943879 21077248+ 83 Linux /dev/sdb9 175943943 219190859 21623458+ 83 Linux /dev/sdb10 219190923 220211199 510138+ 83 Linux /dev/sdb11 220213248 246687743 13237248 83 Linux /dev/sdb12 246689792 347549695 50429952 83 Linux /dev/sdb13 347550273 557309951 104879839+ 83 Linux /dev/sdb14 557312000 976766975 209727488 83 Linux spinymouse@q:~$ sudo parted -l Model: ATA SAMSUNG HD321KJ (scsi) Disk /dev/sda: 320GB Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B Partition Table: msdos Number Start End Size Type File system Flags 1 32.3kB 62.1GB 62.1GB primary ext3 2 62.1GB 320GB 258GB extended boot 5 62.1GB 94.1GB 32.0GB logical ntfs 6 94.1GB 126GB 32.1GB logical ext3 7 126GB 158GB 32.2GB logical ext3 8 158GB 185GB 27.0GB logical ext3 9 185GB 223GB 37.7GB logical ext3 10 223GB 225GB 2328MB logical linux-swap(v1) 11 225GB 288GB 62.3GB logical ext3 12 288GB 291GB 3759MB logical ext3 13 291GB 315GB 23.7GB logical ext3 14 315GB 320GB 4927MB logical ext3 Model: ATA SAMSUNG HD502HJ (scsi) Disk /dev/sdb: 500GB Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B Partition Table: msdos Number Start End Size Type File system Flags 1 32.3kB 22.0GB 22.0GB primary ext4 2 22.0GB 500GB 478GB extended 5 22.0GB 44.0GB 22.0GB logical ext3 6 44.0GB 65.9GB 21.9GB logical ext3 7 65.9GB 68.5GB 2607MB logical linux-swap(v1) 8 68.5GB 90.1GB 21.6GB logical ext4 9 90.1GB 112GB 22.1GB logical ext4 10 112GB 113GB 522MB logical ext4 11 113GB 126GB 13.6GB logical ext4 12 126GB 178GB 51.6GB logical ext4 13 178GB 285GB 107GB logical ext4 14 285GB 500GB 215GB logical ext4