From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 22 14:33:10 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id EC0C2895 for ; Wed, 22 Jan 2014 14:33:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-pa0-x22d.google.com (mail-pa0-x22d.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:400e:c03::22d]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C1D801E95 for ; Wed, 22 Jan 2014 14:33:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-pa0-f45.google.com with SMTP id lf10so448381pab.32 for ; Wed, 22 Jan 2014 06:33:09 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=RX9dmMhW6m+8TbyaItGxkzy5WFZUmY2UR7rmQtR2ME0=; b=s5KWJjgonYKIzz5l+UdVE+6wso51hR4OBwhu0er3Wea/JVh2lto9MfJHJpCR6c+UwW voyCo7dZ6cHuQ0eIkAezgbkADrqTAKwG3sbtfCp+L3d30wgGNQV7h2KP/gYX4IZF2jow DcgMH6qHm1d2Rnm/bTPjVv9a/3rOtdACOALs6MV8aSHUIf5fDn/tQruz8ZxujSjYNKrM lElChPscVxDdZkmuHtC6dP91a2DA/QHbChF2+kZyKc4aUJVRQ64lZiqj5pdrDXxGY3oD LeJmh5GBz6he6BrdI52GvIGkPg9HatPfz4tTvlQIrY+8wyuoem09mBMjFWPb26iyeS46 QQJg== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.66.139.100 with SMTP id qx4mr1843372pab.141.1390401189413; Wed, 22 Jan 2014 06:33:09 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.70.92.71 with HTTP; Wed, 22 Jan 2014 06:33:09 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2014 08:33:09 -0600 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Am I getting too old From: Adam Vande More To: Olivier Nicole Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.17 Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2014 14:33:10 -0000 On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 3:18 AM, Olivier Nicole wrote: > Hi, > > in the old times (FreeBSD 8) it took me 5 minutes to partition a disk > for a test machine: create a couple of MS DOS partitions, install the > MBR, create FreeBSD partitions, done. It used to be working easily, > efficiently and reliably. > > Now it had been one day since I tried to reproduce that with FreeBSD > 9, not to avail: I always end up with messaged saying things like > invalid partition, or stuff like that. > > What was the rational behind the decision of breaking something that > used to work fine (that had been working fine for over 10 years) and > replace it with something that is ugly, unfriendly (you have to give > some types to the partitions, but nowhere is it written what type is > allowed or not) and that is not working? > > Oh maybe if I choose to go all by default it will work, but I don't > want the default, I want to be allowed to make my own choices easily. > > Best regards > > Olivier >From a FreeBSD admin since the 2.2.x era, I find GPT much easier to work with. I guess this is a preference thing. -- Adam