geli on slices; Expected rawoffset x, found x

[tcn]

Hi,

I'm trying to partition my drives so I get one unencrypted boot partition and an encrypted one.

The problem is that whenever I try to create slices, bsdlabel always complains with a "WARNING: Expected rawoffset x, found x" message. I can't seem to find a proper size that would make bsdlabel happy.

Is there a way to calculate the size of a slice so it falls on the right offset; I don't think FDisk allows be to specify any size anyway? (assuming a block size of 4096)

Thanks

 

[tcn]

Found workaround

To anyone who is having this problem, I found a workaround in the archives of FreeBSD.

Take a look at http://forums.freebsd.org/archive/index.php/t-184.html; it will show you how to get it working.

 

[graudeejs]

Things are much easier when you use GPT partitions
you can create them with gpt (on FreeBSD 7.x) or gpart (On FreeBSD 8)
[perhaps gpart was improbed on FreeBSD 7.x as well, but I'm not sure]

http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=1305

 

[tcn]

Thanks! I'll look into it! There has been a lot of changes in FreeBSD since version 4... I'm kinda like a dinosaur now.