gpart questions

[CyberLeo Kitsana]

On 04/24/2011 12:24 PM, Helmut Schneider wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> i'm playing around with (virtual) disks within a VMware ESXi 4.1 server:
> ...
> So, what did sysinstall that gpart didn't?

You forgot to gpart create the inner BSD label on da1s1.

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# mdconfig -a -t swap -s 512M
md0
# gpart show md0
gpart: No such geom: md0.
# gpart create -s mbr md0
md0 created
# gpart show md0
=>      9  1048563  md0  MBR  (512M)
        9  1048563       - free -  (512M)

# gpart add -b 63 -s 1048500 -t freebsd md0
md0s1 added
# gpart show md0
=>      9  1048563  md0  MBR  (512M)
        9       54       - free -  (27K)
       63  1048500    1  freebsd  (512M)
  1048563        9       - free -  (4.5K)

# gpart show md0s1
gpart: No such geom: md0s1.
# gpart create -s bsd md0s1
md0s1 created
# gpart show md0s1
=>      0  1048500  md0s1  BSD  (512M)
        0  1048500         - free -  (512M)
# gpart add -b 16 -s 1048484 -t freebsd-ufs md0s1
md0s1a added
# gpart show md0s1
=>      0  1048500  md0s1  BSD  (512M)
        0       16         - free -  (8.0K)
       16  1048484      1  freebsd-ufs  (512M)

# ls -la /dev/md0*
crw-r-----  1 root  operator    0, 153 Apr 26 02:57 /dev/md0
crw-r-----  1 root  operator    0, 157 Apr 26 02:58 /dev/md0s1
crw-r-----  1 root  operator    0, 159 Apr 26 03:03 /dev/md0s1a
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