From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 28 16:42:11 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EDEF9644 for ; Wed, 28 Nov 2012 16:42:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ralf.mardorf@rocketmail.com) Received: from nm7.bullet.mail.ukl.yahoo.com (nm7.bullet.mail.ukl.yahoo.com [217.146.182.248]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 448DE8FC13 for ; Wed, 28 Nov 2012 16:42:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [217.146.183.180] by nm7.bullet.mail.ukl.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 28 Nov 2012 16:42:03 -0000 Received: from [77.238.184.65] by tm11.bullet.mail.ukl.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 28 Nov 2012 16:42:03 -0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] by smtp134.mail.ukl.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 28 Nov 2012 16:42:03 -0000 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=rocketmail.com; s=s1024; t=1354120923; bh=V5HCQlECByVFQIHEGpaYnZJuXSJNyOzZ6VOblvmnCmA=; h=X-Yahoo-Newman-Id:X-Yahoo-Newman-Property:X-YMail-OSG:X-Yahoo-SMTP:Received:Message-ID:Subject:From:To:Date:In-Reply-To:References:Content-Type:X-Mailer:Mime-Version:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=fR16VnuS+SBN1YGYSpFdKQkacR61+zAGD601/uvfHrnk5CBYdRxGQLlobKdTBIk05cGtQjkXlaKBSbVYuW11YbHnJCTT+k9J+1pG5wkon4hAZPOPlSf3XXVpviFdHTfDbqCNY+IoGWjKeNcEe8l5DyYSS2ePnKNCTrw0zwlwKoU= X-Yahoo-Newman-Id: 305952.60776.bm@smtp134.mail.ukl.yahoo.com X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 X-YMail-OSG: EyqwixYVM1k1gJZ2eGm8XHHbtsvPQO5ubSXQ70akHHfOmcm nslHJZBpIKUPv2xfq4b8TA5yxjONWvduibjQrWvNsafPwsGe8HHwZUsPd0A5 khqXsVIy7dTy9Qu7b0bIK0PtmjT4LwkTq6ZkXNCR_L3.qXsga3BIWGtWqwQ4 PY1tO4VP7FCcV7oQ55jd71NkqjuAIoo87c7nOTDyCA7W9X22tL1CQ8UW4JfL fi9Rhehv13moLmJgyY0yeRQKBsvpq_V3UtkoZ1nv9hVpF7u8TrxL.q8QBrc3 KKtf3mTOBEKbKW.KYZ6VVa8.hDhJkO_Ny.C8eVyOp76rFalfqKW6cMuV6iEB 55SSb3nzTbESP_jY0P87v64gPXxCutg9A4yMajQRkD6GGkFpRTu5dznZL9hH NF7qOrXEYIqBcG6d9igEDRxwf5EwLg1oFltXLvs4- X-Yahoo-SMTP: BeMCPs2swBABTJ3kAeEiC_hE0mz8jRexLddJfD8pI2j32fOacjBmXg-- Received: from [85.182.24.211] (ralf.mardorf@85.182.24.211 with login) by smtp134.mail.ukl.yahoo.com with SMTP; 28 Nov 2012 16:42:03 +0000 GMT Message-ID: <1354120916.3152.16.camel@q> Subject: Re: How to create a partition for FreeBSD 9.0? From: Ralf Mardorf To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2012 17:41:56 +0100 In-Reply-To: References: <1353795280.2662.12.camel@q> <20121124233520.7ad4b4be.freebsd@edvax.de> <1353798889.2662.46.camel@q> <20121125002717.11a61c8d.freebsd@edvax.de> <1353807268.2773.16.camel@q> <20121125131908.671f6d31.freebsd@edvax.de> <1353846552.2508.23.camel@q> <1353877782.2508.225.camel@q> <1354029192.2827.11.camel@q> <1354046327.2528.15.camel@q> <1354086404.2528.89.camel@q> <1354119648.3152.4.camel@q> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.6.0-0ubuntu3 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2012 16:42:11 -0000 On Wed, 2012-11-28 at 09:25 -0700, Warren Block wrote: > On Wed, 28 Nov 2012, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > On Wed, 2012-11-28 at 08:06 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > >> On Tue, 2012-11-27 at 17:04 -0700, Warren Block wrote: > >>>> # gpart create -s bsd ada0s1 > >>>> gpart: geom 'ada0s1': File exists > >>> > >>> Sorry, no idea on that. Because of the extended partitions, maybe. > >> > >> Thank you, > >> > >> so this should work and if it doesn't work, I can't install FreeBSD? > >> > >> Anything else I can try? > > > > I'm downloading PC-BSD 8.2 x64, assumed partitioning should work, will > > it be possible to update to FreeBSD 9.x or do they differ, similar as > > different Linux distros can differ? > > PC-BSD is FreeBSD, and there is a 9.x version. I don't know what it > uses for partitioning code, but if you value your data, back up first. I chose 8.2, to get another version for partitioning. However, I'll also test your recommendation from your previous mail. # gpart modify -i1 -t freebsd-ufs da0 And I'll avoid to use the cursor keys next time, to get a better log file. Thank you for your help, Ralf