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Date:      Sat, 10 Oct 2009 22:08:38 +0200
From:      Anselm Strauss <amsibamsi@gmail.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   gpart mbr scheme
Message-ID:  <744E86AA-8024-4A1D-903A-11B6177B4D95@gmail.com>

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Hi,

I'm trying to partition a compact flash card with gpart. When I want  
to create a new MBR scheme it always complains:

-> gpart create -s mbr da0
gpart: scheme 'mbr': Invalid argument

The GPT scheme works fine:

-> gpart create -s gpt da0
da0 created
-> gpart show da0
=>     34  8027645  da0  GPT  (3.8G)
        34  8027645       - free -  (3.8G)
-> gpart destroy da0
da0 destroyed

The kernel driver seems to be loaded:

-> kldstat -v | grep mbr
                 278 g_mbr
                 277 g_mbrext

Does gpart in 7.2 not support MBR partitioning?


Cheers,
Anselm



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