Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2014 13:57:58 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> To: Gary Aitken <freebsd@dreamchaser.org> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: gpart -- label an ntfs partition on usb stick? Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.11.1409161354410.86963@wonkity.com> In-Reply-To: <54187221.9030500@dreamchaser.org> References: <54187221.9030500@dreamchaser.org>
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On Tue, 16 Sep 2014, Gary Aitken wrote: > I'm trying to reformat a USB stick to take large files. It was my understanding > that gpart could do this, and that the proper file type was ntfs. It seems to > work with no label, but when I attempt to label the partition, it objects. I > thought the label was part of the partitioning scheme, and as such should be > independent of the partition type. What am I missing? > > # gpart show -l da0 > => 1 125031679 da0 MBR (59G) > 1 31 - free - (15k) > 32 125031648 1 (null) (59G) > > # gpart delete -i 1 da0 > da0s1 deleted > # gpart show -l da0 > => 1 125031679 da0 MBR (59G) > 1 125031679 - free - (59G) > > # gpart add -t ntfs -l ntfs da0 > gpart: Invalid argument > # gpart add -t ntfs da0 > da0s1 added > # gpart show -l da0 > => 1 125031679 da0 MBR (59G) > 1 62 - free - (31k) > 63 125031564 1 (null) (59G) > 125031627 53 - free - (26k) With GPT, labels are part of the partition scheme. But MBR does not support partition labels. glabel(8) suggests that NTFS supports volume labels.
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