Charles Sprickman <sp...@bway.net> writes: > On Thu, 22 Jul 2010, Boris Samorodov wrote: >> On Wed, 21 Jul 2010 23:15:41 -0400 Dan Langille wrote: >>> On 7/21/2010 11:05 PM, Dan Langille wrote (something close to this): >> >>>> First, create a new GUID Partition Table partition scheme on the HDD: >>>> gpart create -s GPT ad0 >>>> >>>> Let's see how much space we have. This output will be used to determine >>>> SOMEVALUE in the next command. >>>> >>>> gpart show >>>> >>>> Create a new partition within that scheme: >>>> gpart add -b 34 -s SOMEVALUE -t freebsd-zfs ad0 >>>> >>>> Now, label the thing: >>>> glabel label -v disk00 /dev/ad0 >> >> That command will destroy secondary GPT. > > I was just reading about GUID partitioning last night and saw that one > of the benefits is that there's a copy of the partition table kept at > the end of the disk. That seems like a pretty neat feature. > > Do you by any chance have a reference I can point to (I was > documenting stuff about GPT in an internal wiki and this is a nice > piece of info to have)? > > Also, how does one access/use the "backup" partition table?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GUID_Partition_Table -- WBR, bsam _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
