bsdlabel geometry params

Warren Block wblock at wonkity.com
Mon Jun 4 21:25:34 UTC 2012


On Mon, 4 Jun 2012, Gary Aitken wrote:

>> 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.
>
> 19.3.2

That's the Storage chapter, section "Command Line Utilities".  That is 
yet another section that needs updating.  In the meantime, here:

http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/disksetup.html

The second half of that covers using gpart(8).  I suggest using GPT 
partitions unless your configuration does not allow them (gmirror, for 
example).


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