Re: gpart, glabel and newfs --> what am I doing wrong

2013-01-13 Thread Warren Block
On Sun, 13 Jan 2013, Warren Block wrote: On Sun, 13 Jan 2013, kpn...@pobox.com wrote: On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 08:09:00AM +0700, Erich Dollansky wrote: For what is glabel then still good? It is still useful for partition schemes that don't have labels (eg, MBR) AND the filesystem used doesn'

Re: gpart, glabel and newfs --> what am I doing wrong

2013-01-13 Thread Warren Block
On Sun, 13 Jan 2013, kpn...@pobox.com wrote: On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 08:09:00AM +0700, Erich Dollansky wrote: For what is glabel then still good? It is still useful for partition schemes that don't have labels (eg, MBR) AND the filesystem used doesn't support labels itself AND the end of the

Re: gpart, glabel and newfs --> what am I doing wrong

2013-01-13 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Sun, 13 Jan 2013 01:36:21 -0500 kpn...@pobox.com wrote: > On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 08:09:00AM +0700, Erich Dollansky wrote: > > For what is glabel then still good? > > It is still useful for partition schemes that don't have labels (eg, > MBR) AND the filesystem used doesn't support labels

Re: gpart, glabel and newfs --> what am I doing wrong

2013-01-12 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Sat, 12 Jan 2013 09:56:39 -0700 (MST) Warren Block wrote: > On Sat, 12 Jan 2013, Erich Dollansky wrote: > > > in general, I try to create the partitions with gpart, add a label > > with glabel and put a filesystem. I think that I am doing something > > very simple the wrong way but I can

Re: gpart, glabel and newfs --> what am I doing wrong

2013-01-12 Thread Warren Block
On Sat, 12 Jan 2013, Erich Dollansky wrote: in general, I try to create the partitions with gpart, add a label with glabel and put a filesystem. I think that I am doing something very simple the wrong way but I cannot see the error. I try to do it in the following way: # gpart destroy -F da0 #

Re: gpart, glabel and newfs --> what am I doing wrong

2013-01-12 Thread Mardorf Ralf
FWIW I could not partition using the FreeBSD 9.0 amd64 install DVD. I partitioned with the PcBSD  8.2 DVD and then tried to install from 9.0, but it anyway caused partitioning issues. After that I partitioned using FreeBSD 8.3, installed 8.3 and then updated to 9.1. Regards, Ralf _

gpart, glabel and newfs --> what am I doing wrong

2013-01-12 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, in general, I try to create the partitions with gpart, add a label with glabel and put a filesystem. I think that I am doing something very simple the wrong way but I cannot see the error. I try to do it in the following way: # gpart destroy -F da0 # gpart create -s GPT da0 # gpart add -t fr