Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2018 21:22:47 +1000 From: Trev <freebsd-arm@sentry.org> To: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gpart trouble Message-ID: <3afd0c1c-a594-51a5-d320-5010796b7491@sentry.org> In-Reply-To: <20180704052357.GA63177@www.zefox.net> References: <20180704041559.GA63030@www.zefox.net> <201807040423.w644NirT041295@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net> <20180704052357.GA63177@www.zefox.net>
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bob prohaska wrote on 04/07/2018 15:23: > On Tue, Jul 03, 2018 at 09:23:43PM -0700, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: >>> >>> I want to add some swap partitions to the June 28th RPI3 snapshot image on microSD. >>> Growfs was suppressed, so the card has 12 GB of free space: >>> >>> Enter full pathname of shell or RETURN for /bin/sh: >>> Cannot read termcap database; >>> using dumb terminal settings. >>> # mount -o rw / >>> # gpart show mmcsd0 >>> => 63 31116225 mmcsd0 MBR (15G) >> ^^^^^ >>> 63 2016 - free - (1.0M) >>> 2079 102312 1 fat32lba [active] (50M) >>> 104391 5138469 2 freebsd (2.5G) >>> 5242860 25873428 - free - (12G) >>> >>> # gpart add -t freebsd-swap -s 1G mmcsd0 >>> gpart: Invalid argument >>> # gpart add -t freebsd-swap -s 1G /dev/mmcsd0 >>> gpart: Invalid argument >>> # gpart add -t freebsd-swap -s 1GB -l swap mmcsd0 >>> gpart: Invalid argument You need to create BSD disklabel slice along the lines of gpart create -s BSD -n 8 mmmcsd0s1 then add the root partition gpart add -t freebsd-ufs -s 10G mmcsd0s1a then add the swap partition gpart add -t freebsd-swap -s 2G mmcsd0s1b Excuse the formatting, I'm interstate with vnc on an iPad mini which involves lots of scrolling.
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