gpart

I'm having a lot of trouble understanding and calculating the alignment. OBJECTIVE: Know how to calculate the alignment for my HD, So I can align my HDs on my Laptop, 2 Nvme and 1 SSD, They are different brands and different sizes Problem 1: How do I create a partition table with 4096 byte...

First, a quick warning to beadm users: If you have upgraded to 14.0 and you boot from ZFS and you ran zpool upgrade on your root ZFS pool and you beadm activate a pre-14.0 snapshot then you may be in for some pain :'‑( How did I get here: My FreeBSD system uses UEFI, I boot from ZFS and I...

I created raidz with labels and geoms /dev/ada1pX /dev/ada2pX /dev/ada3pX /dev/ada3pX as well as /dev/gpt/$labels existed before reboot. It was like this: pool: hddPool_x3_RAIDZ state: ONLINE config: NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM...

Hello. I have a problem installing FreeBSD 13.1. When partitioning the disk, I have the problem that you see in the photo. Invalid argument. I checked both on VM and on another disk. I tried to reinstall MBR, it didn't help. It's the same in gpart. Creating a part of any type does not work. I...

I have a 64GB GPT disk image file with multiple partitions. I shrank the last (and the largest) partition and now have a free space of 32GB at the end. Now I'd like to shrink the entire image file. If I simply run truncate -s 32g disk.img, gpart doesn't like it and reports "No such geometry"...

Context I've added a fancy new NVMe storage device to my system. I wish to install an operating system on it. To achieve this, I believe I should: Setup a GPT partition table scheme Create an NTFS partition within the GPT table scheme Reboot and use a prepared USB to install my new operating...

I would like to multi-boot FreeBSD[13.1-RESEASE], OpenBSD[7.1] and Debian[sid] on my SSD. Before doing it on physical disks, I tried it on VirtualBox on my FreeBSD-13.1-RELEASE. I installed OpenBSD on ada0p4 with full disk encryption. To do/practice it twice, I booted into FreeBSD, delete and...

I'm trying to format my external disk with ZFS filesystem. I've search and found several guides using different tools. Since sysutils/gpart is used in handbook, it seems FreeBSD prefer it than other tools. So, I'd like to know what's the difference and I'd like to make sure the commands I used...

Hi, I am running the following build against the stable/13 source branch: cd /usr/src git clone -b stable/12 --depth 1 https://git.freebsd.org/src.git /usr/src cd release sh release.sh -c $HOME/BBB.conf The error I get looks as follows on the command line...

When gdisk(8) adds the first partition to a disk, it defaults to 1 M free space before the partition, for example: root@mowa219-gjp4-8570p-freebsd:~ # gpart show da4 => 34 976773101 da4 GPT (466G) 34 2014 - free - (1.0M) 2048 976771087 1 freebsd-ufs...

I need to resize the / without losing data, I believe I will need to do this with a FreeBSD LIVE distro, but I'm concerned about the lack of experience with gpart. Below is the disk partition table > root@FreeBSD:~ # gpart show ada1 => 63 468862065 ada1 MBR (224G) 63...

I have a FreeBSD 13.0 bhyve VM running on a FreeBSD 13.0 host. Originally, The VM was created with a 64 GB disk but I increased that to 128 GB. When logging into the VM, I see that the disk was indeed resized correctly: root@poudriere01:~ # gpart show -lp => 40 268435440 vtbd0 GPT...

Hello everyone. I have a computer with Windows, Arch and Lubuntu and all these systems are booting from a Multi-Boot. Recently, I decided to download freebsd for some tests and decided to put the OS in my multi-boot. I allocated 20 GB, installed in UEFI/GPT and made 3 partitions from UFS...

Hi daemons, I created a new partition: sudo gpart add -t freebsd-swap -i 2 ada 2 sudo swapon /dev/ada2p2 It works great but, the whole partition is of 400G but, htop only shows `66.0G` Why is that?

Hello fellow FreeBSD users, I try to mount a USB stick to recover a geli key. This stick has a full install and I used to boot on it and run FreeBSD (version 7 or 8). When I created it I did not use slices and make it dedicated (I forgot why). The server hardware is broken and I can't boot on an...

Hello, I had the following partition scheme: ada0: ada0p1 freebsd-boot ada0p2 freebsd-swap ada0p3 freebsd-zfs ada0p3 had a size of ~1TB, and after I resized this partition to 500GB using gpart, the boot loader cannot found my zfs pool. What should I do to fix my boot loader and my zfs pool...

Hi all. Using ZFS raidz quite a lot in my work; I used to give zfs whole disks as it is told ZFS love to manage itself entire disks. Unfortunately this way of managing disks leads to disks without labels/partitions scheme : the partition table remains clear , so it not clearly visible to...

Hi, I am planning to do a bare-metal installation of FreeBSD 12.1 on a intel 330 SSD which already contain Devuan 3.0 Linux on UEFI-GPT system. I'm planning to install Gnome 3. I tried running the installer and manual mode in bsdinstall seems to me, confusing. It is asking for entire disk or...

Hello, I've tried using FreeBSD but due to a lot of unsupported software and a few strange interactions with my CPU I simply wish to install another operating system. On Linux this would be easy, just use 'dd if=myiso.iso of=/dev/sdb (my ssd partition)'. However, when I tried to do this on...

Hello All, I'm trying to restore my boot mirror (2 identical USB sticks) using gpart backup and gpart restore but getting an error. # gpart list da0 Geom name: da0 modified: false state: OK fwheads: 255 fwsectors: 63 last: 31260638 first: 34 entries: 128 scheme: GPT Providers: 1. Name: da0p1...