From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 8 22:27:17 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1791A106564A for ; Tue, 8 Feb 2011 22:27:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bf1783@googlemail.com) Received: from mail-yx0-f182.google.com (mail-yx0-f182.google.com [209.85.213.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CBAE48FC0C for ; Tue, 8 Feb 2011 22:27:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: by yxh35 with SMTP id 35so2602005yxh.13 for ; Tue, 08 Feb 2011 14:27:16 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:reply-to:date:message-id:subject :from:to:cc:content-type; bh=G+13ncOzIE7fw8chF4W3UC86u1O7BoERvvKrcIEmgDk=; b=MWezdehLNbs8w41EUw9COuX4Ku1qn3JwTvVM6LtBUoef71zF0JTnBqtn1Crr18U7Ac z8K4mEHzCzU5wxBdg4biAzX/4eCJ0YUoIuT8Mmg1f0zjSiy5j4EEwel6MtAMoupwpNaK pjqV3Eqqrtu1pc0n6uFYltRe3+WW8YazIYR/k= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:reply-to:date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc :content-type; b=w5G2zKlSdOHLeGlCmOm1TmMiyF4GlHLWAFfMrplnUzJ5J+NVmahnHiE8bF2pMG+nR1 4r2Fed8bZR+VTRImj8MTVKlowcJokWV72TvalUt9Q1imBr9DbOixj215ilVZg4mCKkNC 1cNSJbR4xBwCWFBL+BjImY6PTfzQIhL6+feTk= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.236.103.41 with SMTP id e29mr3048555yhg.11.1297204035841; Tue, 08 Feb 2011 14:27:15 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.236.110.52 with HTTP; Tue, 8 Feb 2011 14:27:15 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2011 17:27:15 -0500 Message-ID: From: "b. f." To: Mario Lobo Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Accessing a GPT drive X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: bf1783@gmail.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2011 22:27:17 -0000 > Os: FreeBSD amd64 w/ options GEOM_PART_GPT What version of FreeBSD? > I added a drive to my system which I installed win7 64. The drive is 500G. > I gave 100G to win7. Then I created an ext2 partition with the unallocated > space with a gparted cd. > fdisk shows the MBR of the drive with the win7 system and data partitions > and the ext2 partition created. This is a bit confusing. You didn't tell us exactly what you did with gparted (by the way, you should be able to do this with gpart(8) in recent versions of FreeBSD), what version of fdisk you used, or what MBR you are referring to here (maybe a protective MBR?), since you claim that Win7 only installs in a GPT scheme. Are you sure about that? Did you try to layout a disk first, and then install Win7 into an existing partition? I don't have a copy of Win7 to check this, but I've seen other accounts that didn't mention this problem, e.g., http://bastian.rieck.ru/howtos/windows_boot_manager/ http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=14222 But maybe you have an EFI-based system? > I need to access both the NTFS win7 and ext2 partitions from freeBSD. FBSD > "sees" the drive (ada2) but does not "see" the partitions. I need to access > the ext2 partition > from both FBSD and win7. I have another ext2 on the other drive that both > OSs see fine but that drive > has MBR scheme. Win7 only installs in a GPT partition. How exactly did you determine that FreeBSD doesn't "see" the partitions? By using "gpart show"? In the past, I've found: http://www.rodsbooks.com/gdisk/ a useful source of information about using GPT with FreeBSD and Win*, although some of the OS-specific material is dated. b.