Advanced Format Drive ?
Warren Block
wblock at wonkity.com
Fri Nov 16 04:04:53 UTC 2012
On Thu, 15 Nov 2012, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
> I think that I have only two final questions:
>
> 1) I can't remember now if the ``guided'' partitioning approach that
> is offered to folks who are installing FreeBSD 9.x itself offers a
> "GPT" option or not. Does it? (If not, and if MBR is really now
> considered antiquated, then I would think that the install process
> really should offer a GPT option, if it isn't doing so already.)
GPT is the default for bsdinstall.
> 2) Not knowing any better, on this fresh install that I'm doing now
> (of 9.1-RC3) when it got down to the point where it asked me how I wanted
> to partition, I selected the "exit to shell" option. Once I got a
> shell prompt, I proceeded to do bascially everything that's suggested
> in the "The New Standard Method" section of Warren's nice tutorial.
> My assumption was that I could do this, get all of my shiny new GPT
> partitions just the way I wanted them, and just simply exit the shell...
> an action which, I had hoped, would return me to the install process
> at a point where I would then be asked to assign mount points to each
> of my newly created GPT partitions, and then, hopefully, the rest of the
> install process would proceed in an entirely customary way.
It would, but you have to mount the new filesystems in a certain spot.
bsdinstall shows a prompt about that.
> And how exactly do mount points get associated with partitions (in particular
> GPT partitions) anyway? Are these just another partition attribute? The
> gpart(8) man page is also utterly silent on the subject of mount points,
> even though they are quite obviously a rather critical component of what
> it takes to make a partition useful on/to FreeBSD.
GPT partitions appear in /dev as the drive name followed by "p" and the
partition number, similar to the old slice/partition notation. So
instead of /dev/ada0s1a, it will typically be /dev/ada0p2. These are
entered in /etc/fstab as normal.
My guide uses GPT labels, which are superior in many ways to fixed
device names, but also not really covered by that article.
> P.S. Assigning mount points appears to be one thing that the new swiss-
> army-knife of gpart _cannot_ do. Given that, I have to ask...
> What if any command line tool is available to associate partitions with
> mount points?
/etc/fstab, same as normal.
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