Hi,
It seems the FreeBSD handbook's chapter on adding disks http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/disks-adding.html is outdated. Should I be using sysinstall? I thought it's not meant to be used anymore. Could someone clarify the intention of mixing two installers in FreeBSD 9.0?
The part that describes 'command line utilities', still uses fdisk, bsdlabel, etc. which are also outdated.
Since I needed to add a disk, I was looking for a proper how-to. Luckily found this link: http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/disksetup.html#_the_new_alternate_method_tt_gpart_8_tt, but it was more than I needed.
I wanted to add a disk with UFS on it, one single partition (disk for data). The complication is that it is also an 'Advanced Format' thing (WD drive), that needs 4k alignment (it still says 512KB to the system though!).
So I've done it like this:
Did I do it right? Instead of a '-b 1M' option suggested in the link above, I've used '-a 4k'. Is it sufficient to get the drive properly aligned?
Thanks!
It seems the FreeBSD handbook's chapter on adding disks http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/disks-adding.html is outdated. Should I be using sysinstall? I thought it's not meant to be used anymore. Could someone clarify the intention of mixing two installers in FreeBSD 9.0?
The part that describes 'command line utilities', still uses fdisk, bsdlabel, etc. which are also outdated.
Since I needed to add a disk, I was looking for a proper how-to. Luckily found this link: http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/disksetup.html#_the_new_alternate_method_tt_gpart_8_tt, but it was more than I needed.
I wanted to add a disk with UFS on it, one single partition (disk for data). The complication is that it is also an 'Advanced Format' thing (WD drive), that needs 4k alignment (it still says 512KB to the system though!).
So I've done it like this:
Code:
black# gpart create -s gpt ada1
ada1 created
black# gpart add -t freebsd-ufs -l wd750rootfs -a 4k ada1
ada1p1 added
black# gpart show
=> 34 1465149101 ada1 GPT (698G)
34 6 - free - (3.0k)
40 1465149088 1 freebsd-ufs (698G)
1465149128 7 - free - (3.5k)Did I do it right? Instead of a '-b 1M' option suggested in the link above, I've used '-a 4k'. Is it sufficient to get the drive properly aligned?
Thanks!
