Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 15:09:30 -0400 From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Questions about GPT and it's replacement... Message-ID: <201003301509.30826.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <C7D7A545.383B%trevor.hearn@vanderbilt.edu> References: <C7D7A545.383B%trevor.hearn@vanderbilt.edu>
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On Tuesday 30 March 2010 1:55:33 pm Hearn, Trevor wrote: > Heya Everyone, > I have a FreeBSD 6.4 system with a Promise array attached to it via a Qlogic > Fibre Channel card. I have been unable to get 7.2 to get past the FW:Get > mailbox error, so I installed FREEBSD 8.0 on it, and have been playing > around. I am used to GPT, and have set up all of the partitions in the past > using it. I see that someone did GPTE, but I can't seem to get it to see the > devices and partitions in the same way that it did before. Since GPTE seems > experimental, and self-proclaimed as 'hackerish' what should I use to cut up > a 25.5tb array? GPART? I am at a loss at the moment. I thought that GPTE was > doing what I needed, but when I try and mount the partitions, I get no > success. What am I missing? You should still use GPT, but you now have to use the 'gpart' utility to manage GPT partitions instead of gpt(8). -- John Baldwin
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