Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2012 19:41:45 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> To: doug@safeport.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: help with gpart Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1210311934590.7618@wonkity.com> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1210312055420.4527@oceanpt.safeport.com> References: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1210312055420.4527@oceanpt.safeport.com>
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On Wed, 31 Oct 2012, doug@safeport.com wrote: > I am trying to put FreeBSD on an HP laptop. The use up all the partitions to > I deleted the least useful one, shrunk the windows partition and tried to add > freeBSD. > > gpart show: > > => 63 625142385 ada0 MBR (298G) > 63 1985 - free - (992k) > 2048 407552 1 ntfs [active] (199M) > 409600 311951360 2 ntfs (148G) > 312360960 33 - free - (16k) > 312360993 283115448 4 freebsd (135G) > 595476441 577575 - free - (282M) > 596054016 28880896 3 ntfs (13G) > 624934912 207536 - free - (101M) > > I do not have any flexibility as to where #4 is. I would like to use the 9.0 > installer from this point but it wants to add BSD partitions to the 282M > space. > > I am not sure after much man-ing and google-ing what gpart commands are > required. I guess I could use sysinstall at this point but learning gpart > seems like a good thing. I assume I need to do something like: > > gpart add set -a active -i 4 ada04 (not sure geom is correct) No, for slice 4, it would be ada0s4. For the MBR setup, bootcode must be added to both the MBR (ada0) and the slice. > gpart bootcode -b /boot/boot0 ada04 > > and then add the mounts. I would like > > / > swap > /var 10g > /usr 20g > /home (the rest) > > but am somewhat lost about the syntax and geom values. thanks for any help bsdlabel partitions are created inside a slice. No idea whether the partition numbers being out of order will be a problem... gpart create -s bsd ada0s4 gpart bootcode -b /boot/boot ada0s4 Then add partitions inside that: gpart add -t freebsd-ufs -s 2g ada0s4 gpart add -t freebsd-swap -s 4g ada0s4 gpart add -t freebsd-ufs -2 10g ada0s4 ... I strongly suggest taking advantage of labels with the -l option.
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