Questions about GPT and it's replacement...

[John Baldwin]

On Tuesday 30 March 2010 1:55:33 pm Hearn, Trevor wrote:
> Heya Everyone, 
> I have a FreeBSD 6.4 system with a Promise array attached to it via a Qlogic
> Fibre Channel card. I have been unable to get 7.2 to get past the FW:Get
> mailbox error, so I installed FREEBSD 8.0 on it, and have been playing
> around. I am used to GPT, and have set up all of the partitions in the past
> using it. I see that someone did GPTE, but I can't seem to get it to see the
> devices and partitions in the same way that it did before. Since GPTE seems
> experimental, and self-proclaimed as 'hackerish' what should I use to cut up
> a 25.5tb array? GPART? I am at a loss at the moment. I thought that GPTE was
> doing what I needed, but when I try and mount the partitions, I get no
> success. What am I missing?

You should still use GPT, but you now have to use the 'gpart' utility to 
manage GPT partitions instead of gpt(8).

-- 
John Baldwin