From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 18 09:09:53 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E644B48 for ; Tue, 18 Jun 2013 09:09:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de) Received: from outpost1.zedat.fu-berlin.de (outpost1.zedat.fu-berlin.de [130.133.4.66]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 00A2B1916 for ; Tue, 18 Jun 2013 09:09:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from inpost2.zedat.fu-berlin.de ([130.133.4.69]) by outpost1.zedat.fu-berlin.de (Exim 4.80.1) for freebsd-current@freebsd.org with esmtp (envelope-from ) id <1Uorv8-001etX-1G>; Tue, 18 Jun 2013 11:09:46 +0200 Received: from telesto.geoinf.fu-berlin.de ([130.133.86.198] helo=telesto) by inpost2.zedat.fu-berlin.de (Exim 4.80.1) for freebsd-current@freebsd.org with esmtpsa (envelope-from ) id <1Uorv7-0004kt-VU>; Tue, 18 Jun 2013 11:09:46 +0200 Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2013 11:09:39 +0200 From: "O. Hartmann" To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: gpart: can not add MBR partitions with "gpart add -t mbr" Message-ID: <20130618110939.41c43066@telesto> Organization: FU Berlin X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.9.2 (GTK+ 2.24.19; amd64-portbld-freebsd10.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=PGP-SHA1; boundary="Sig_/Ns7+gf86yIEt+SDQ.aSiDLS"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Originating-IP: 130.133.86.198 X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2013 09:09:53 -0000 --Sig_/Ns7+gf86yIEt+SDQ.aSiDLS Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Having a 1TB disk with a MBR partition layout created successfully with "gpart create -s MBR ada4", which is shown as Geom name: ada4 modified: false state: OK fwheads: 16 fwsectors: 63 last: 1953525167 first: 63 entries: 4 scheme: MBR Consumers: 1. Name: ada4 Mediasize: 1000204886016 (931G) Sectorsize: 512 Mode: r0w0e0 it is impossible for me to create a partition with=20 gpart add -t mbr ada4 as it can be read in the manpage of gpart. Whatever I do, I receive a useless error from gpart gpart: Invalid argument with no further information.=20 In kernel, I already added GEOM_MBR. geom_part_mbr and geom_part_ldm kernel modules are then already loaded. I tried to figure out what's going wrong but this seems highly enigmatic.=20 What am I doing wrong? Regards and thanks, Oliver --Sig_/Ns7+gf86yIEt+SDQ.aSiDLS Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.20 (FreeBSD) iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJRwCPZAAoJEOgBcD7A/5N8R8MIAJXeYJQBEqmYNBko1REucraq 95GSlRXbD5ZggvFRKkkaxc6NPzJcFW2sjzwGWXoHFXFJTKOQRnmFv/Wixw4SqzSX 9agaoWMM7wbZKiXV5sA8QUOBK50kb2ftoC0jjfvGC4RT5JEIQ9+PNSZBcTcdH1kr hKUqjmefyqcXubEMlCG1It+tMzP9MVX9y2ZBFZ8AcpWwYlrO7TNrL5TjuehoOo+p nw35YqeKtQH6/jOkQY3A2mWRd97qdg7lnp1O3cwMEH7n+sLISXEdKH+CStj3I5ek dLQ0AEBM+jXeJH7Jeojp+o4qQWSg3wzaWgwSLLTgf6OJ+RYv3YrkpYUc/AFYCoo= =5Jbw -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/Ns7+gf86yIEt+SDQ.aSiDLS--