Other some issues with storage management that i am facing

so it all started when i decided to repartition and resetup disks for my zpool when i ran into this issue with labeling
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after asking around,some guys on discord told me that it was due to MBR not supporting partition labels, well that sucked but nevertheless and decided to reboot the pc to boot into a live linux usb to use gparted because freebsd doesn't have gparted for some reason, that was my first annoyance with gpart

after that i noticed that the partition created shows fine in gpart but doesn't actually get created as can be seen from other utilities
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additionally trying to fix that by formatting it with mkntfs doesn't help
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there is another issue with gpart that i am facing. that even creating a MBR partition table doesn't actually get created when i check with other utilities or in other OSes, and i tried gpart commit as well, that didn't help as well

except these issues there are some other issues with other utilities as well that i am facing like testdisk not being able to see any storage other then my usb stick
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or lsblk saying i have a gpt/ntfs partition inside a mbr disk
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additionally seeing how no one else is complaining about these issues i find it weird that i am the only one having these issues

edit:there is another weird thing about freebsd's lsblk(idk what's the situation is on other BSDs) that there is no manpage for it or any help subcommand rather then the one telling that you can use lsblk to see info about specific disks only or that it doesn't support the subcommands or flags that the linux version does, why is that?
 
a mbr partition entry has 2 sets of start-end values.
a legacy CHS one and a more modern LBA one
the CHS pair is 24 bit so it can address 16mm sectors so about 8GB of space. I suspect gpart does not init that or something and mkntfs complains. those values are unusable on modern disk anyway since they can designate only 8GB of space
 
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