How to create a partition for FreeBSD 9.0?

[Warren Block]

On Wed, 28 Nov 2012, Ralf Mardorf wrote:

> On Wed, 2012-11-28 at 08:06 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
>> On Tue, 2012-11-27 at 17:04 -0700, Warren Block wrote:
>>>> # gpart create -s bsd ada0s1
>>>> gpart: geom 'ada0s1': File exists
>>>
>>> Sorry, no idea on that.  Because of the extended partitions, maybe.
>>
>> Thank you,
>>
>> so this should work and if it doesn't work, I can't install FreeBSD?
>>
>> Anything else I can try?
>
> I'm downloading PC-BSD 8.2 x64, assumed partitioning should work, will
> it be possible to update to FreeBSD 9.x or do they differ, similar as
> different Linux distros can differ?

PC-BSD is FreeBSD, and there is a 9.x version.  I don't know what it 
uses for partitioning code, but if you value your data, back up first.