From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 17 00:05:03 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E6E6DF14 for ; Mon, 17 Dec 2012 00:05:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ralf.mardorf@rocketmail.com) Received: from nm3.bullet.mail.ird.yahoo.com (nm3.bullet.mail.ird.yahoo.com [77.238.189.60]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D1488FC16 for ; Mon, 17 Dec 2012 00:05:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [77.238.189.50] by nm3.bullet.mail.ird.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 17 Dec 2012 00:05:01 -0000 Received: from [217.146.188.166] by tm3.bullet.mail.ird.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 17 Dec 2012 00:05:01 -0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] by smtp134.mail.ird.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 17 Dec 2012 00:05:01 -0000 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=rocketmail.com; s=s1024; t=1355702701; bh=B5b+T11R/K0Fednvjdg3cWN8tIhglMYI/+VnjnNLEns=; h=X-Yahoo-Newman-Id:X-Yahoo-Newman-Property:X-YMail-OSG:X-Yahoo-SMTP:Received:Message-ID:Subject:From:To:Date:Content-Type:X-Mailer:Mime-Version:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=xgp7xj1mGpYZ648DvvB7XonRo3+vw4u1+MV8GEM/7ANGKBRxE/epa17RaC9tI3kATx0UAVbR3xp4uHAlSob/WDi/B0kqW0mQ4Yr6HgY3RabvUN8YVPu0V95/jF5qbAzJ9a3Vol79KDHz32lvFoG/TkxsNoq5BV0O+5PoWnqlC3M= X-Yahoo-Newman-Id: 672864.652.bm@smtp134.mail.ird.yahoo.com X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 X-YMail-OSG: 1rrGkuQVM1nVQ0dzjTtQAakY3doj3dmSffysLcb7Jw3zCjq wgM5PXyYRjY3CvvUf68eAdxKdK1hO47BwaftTKIsUDAFEMVbf46EGHV_gdUT 33WmpADTVJVybu1zS0GipsNM0pkQmG6fAi2sTqUCoOKVz.VRawH6Rcjv8T9B Wc0ql5mQnH5FTrnrzqDmsLo7Huyr.ItGVMWOeFRT799KE.yKCvHMNH2pmaKi Cdxa4oWR6jOu7ApljU26ZcpDd7IHt4dIWcux3MD2f6hwtLbhFfAybX6X_oIG 8SBhvO77AD.QM36Zfvi7EM2H0OWIry10Qqze4HPsarsQdUJLQKcu.cfl.WfM vKclewkcOsIp7Q971j_YE6ISPBcbvDRZacGO_irMhfSGT9qogB9KJIAvk5AN J.ZF2puTahW2DW1fqGNPq6SgieiiXMby08yy2Fg-- X-Yahoo-SMTP: BeMCPs2swBABTJ3kAeEiC_hE0mz8jRexLddJfD8pI2j32fOacjBmXg-- Received: from [92.231.4.209] (ralf.mardorf@92.231.4.209 with login) by smtp134.mail.ird.yahoo.com with SMTP; 16 Dec 2012 16:05:01 -0800 PST Message-ID: <1355702700.2452.32.camel@q> Subject: Partitioning - please not that again From: Ralf Mardorf To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2012 01:05:00 +0100 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: Mon, 17 Dec 2012 00:05:04 -0000 Since partitioning didn't work with FreeBSD 9.0 64bit, I tried PC-BSD 8.2 64bit and partitioning worked. I had PC-BSD installed on ada0s1, this was the fstab: /dev/label/rootfs0 / ufs rw,noatime 1 1 /dev/label/swap0 none swap sw 0 0 /dev/label/var0 /var ufs rw,noatime 1 1 /dev/label/usr0 /usr ufs rw,noatime 1 1 procfs /proc procfs rw 0 0 linprocfs /compat/linux/proc linprocfs rw 0 0 Plan 9 was to delete the PC-BSD files and than to avoid partitioning, but simply to install FreeBSD on the existing slice and what ever the mounted things inside the slice are named. I startet the FreeBSD installer, chose the shell and then run: # mount -t ufs /dev/ad0s1 /mnt # cd /mnt # rm -r * # rm -r .* This does cause the issue I already had before. When I go back to the installer, for the partition editor I get: ada0 298 GB MBR ada0s1 57 GB freebsd ada0s2 240 GB EBR [snip] gpart show also doesn't display the 3 ufs and the swap any more. So I neither can install FreeBSD, nor can I restore the dumped PC-BSD. Is there no easy to use partitioning tool, comparable to e.g. Linux's gparted? How do I have to use the partition editor of the installer? :( Ralf