gpart and labels on FBSD11-ARM

[John-Mark Gurney]

Brett Wynkoop wrote this message on Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 01:35 -0500:
> Greeting-
> 
> I am just getting back to working with arm stuff after being taken away
> from it for a while by life events.
> 
> I just installed current using crochet (Thanks Tim) and was pleased to
> see that USB is now working on the BeagleBone.  Great job guys!
> 
> I have a 30GB usb stick in my BB and I sliced up the disk with gpart
> and in so doing labeled the two partitions as gpswap and bbd0.  I
> expected to see those names under /dev/gpt, but no joy.  There is not
> even a /dev/gpt.  In fact I find neither name anywhere under /dev.
> 
> This leads to the question of the hour.......what did I do wrong?  
> 
> I can of course address the partations as /dev/da0p1 and /dev/da0p2,
> but I much prefer to do things with labels if possible.

This could be because BEAGLEBONE doesn't have GEOM_LABEL turned on by
default..  Either try loading geom_label, or recompile your kernel
w/ it, and they should appear..

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