I was about to submit a email to the freebsd-geom list, but their current problem report roster is *already* huge. (open PR's). I've disks which I used to fdisk, newfs etc, but now due to inexperience with gpt/mbr workings, and terse error messages (input/output error, could not write... invalid superblock,... ) none of the tools seem to always work reliably anymore[1]. No reason for
anyone to answer this post (I'm done wondering at the moment, and have no issues I cannot workaround), but maybe some person or group may put a
guide or lengthy manpage for gpart together explaining to newbies, myself, and others specifically
the steps from a raw disk >>> result in a much more detailed manner, similar to the 100-page
brochures which used to arrive with early Windows shareware. OTOH such person or group may be
lacking in testing hardware and/or time.
([1] I can eventually get them to work as expected, but it takes too much time, that should not
be the case; and workarounds present themselves before a solution per se does. )
...
Or maybe the forum will acquire a few howto's in the years to come that are equivalent.
anyone to answer this post (I'm done wondering at the moment, and have no issues I cannot workaround), but maybe some person or group may put a
guide or lengthy manpage for gpart together explaining to newbies, myself, and others specifically
the steps from a raw disk >>> result in a much more detailed manner, similar to the 100-page
brochures which used to arrive with early Windows shareware. OTOH such person or group may be
lacking in testing hardware and/or time.
([1] I can eventually get them to work as expected, but it takes too much time, that should not
be the case; and workarounds present themselves before a solution per se does. )
...
Or maybe the forum will acquire a few howto's in the years to come that are equivalent.