docs/179378: Handbook should use gpart instead of fdisk because of larger disks

[Paul Hoffman]

>Number:         179378
>Category:       docs
>Synopsis:       Handbook should use gpart instead of fdisk because of larger disks
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-doc
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          doc-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Thu Jun 06 22:30:00 UTC 2013
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Paul Hoffman
>Release:        9.1
>Organization:
>Environment:
FreeBSD labbackup.proper.com 9.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE #0 r243826: Tue Dec  4 06:55:39 UTC 2012     root at obrian.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386
>Description:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/disks-adding.html tells how to add a disk. This fails completely when the disk has large sector sizes. For example, with a new 3TB drive, fdisk says:
  fdisk: could not detect sector size
The answer is to not use fdisk, but instead use gpart, as <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2013-March/249989.html> so snidely points out.

However, there is no cookbook for gpart, and that cookbook should be in the handbook.
>How-To-Repeat:
Use fdisk on a large modern drive
>Fix:
I still haven't worked out all the right steps for gpart.

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