bsdlabel geometry params

[Gary Aitken]

On 06/04/12 14:26, Warren Block wrote:
> On Mon, 4 Jun 2012, Gary Aitken wrote:
> 
>> According the the handbook, one should do the following to set up a new disk:
>>
>> 1 dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da1 bs=1k count=1
>> 2 fdisk -BI da1 #Initialize your new disk
>> 3 bsdlabel -B -w da1s1 auto #Label it.
>> 4 bsdlabel -e da1s1 # Edit the bsdlabel just created and add any partitions.
>> 5 mkdir -p /1
>> 6 newfs /dev/da1s1e # Repeat this for every partition you created.
>> 7 mount /dev/da1s1e /1 # Mount the partition(s)
>> 8 vi /etc/fstab # Add the appropriate entry/entries to your /etc/fstab.
>>
>> In step #4, bsdlabel gives you a label with zeros for fsize, bsize, bps/cpg
>> Is it necessary to fill these in, or is there a way to get some reasonable defaults?
>> "newfs -N" will give you numbers for bsize and fsize, but what about bps/cpg?
>>
>> What does the install process do for this step? I don't remember ever having to deal with it.
> 
> What part of the Handbook? I would suggest using gpart(8), it makes GPT partitions easy, and nasty old MBR partitions aren't any worse than with fdisk/bsdlabel.

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