How to create a partition for FreeBSD 9.0?

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Wed, 2012-11-28 at 09:25 -0700, Warren Block wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Nov 2012, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 2012-11-28 at 08:06 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> >> On Tue, 2012-11-27 at 17:04 -0700, Warren Block wrote:
> >>>> # gpart create -s bsd ada0s1
> >>>> gpart: geom 'ada0s1': File exists
> >>>
> >>> Sorry, no idea on that.  Because of the extended partitions, maybe.
> >>
> >> Thank you,
> >>
> >> so this should work and if it doesn't work, I can't install FreeBSD?
> >>
> >> Anything else I can try?
> >
> > I'm downloading PC-BSD 8.2 x64, assumed partitioning should work, will
> > it be possible to update to FreeBSD 9.x or do they differ, similar as
> > different Linux distros can differ?
> 
> PC-BSD is FreeBSD, and there is a 9.x version.  I don't know what it 
> uses for partitioning code, but if you value your data, back up first.

I chose 8.2, to get another version for partitioning.
However, I'll also test your recommendation from your previous mail.

# gpart modify -i1 -t freebsd-ufs da0

And I'll avoid to use the cursor keys next time, to get a better log
file.

Thank you for your help,
Ralf