No GPT on an usb key

[David DEMELIER]

2010/11/8 Boris Samorodov <bsam at ipt.ru>:
> Hi,
>
> On Thu, 28 Oct 2010 09:52:55 +0200 David DEMELIER wrote:
>
>> I'm trying to put on my USB mass storage device a GPT scheme
>> partitions. But gpart still add them as slices :
>
>> To be sure to remove the MBR before I dd'ed it
>
>> $ sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da0 bs=512 count=1
>> 1+0 records in
>> 1+0 records out
>> 512 bytes transferred in 0.003369 secs (151970 bytes/sec)
>> $ sudo gpart create -s GPT da0
>> da0 created
>> $ gpart show da0
>> =>      34  15771653  da0  GPT  (7.5G)
>>         34  15771653       - free -  (7.5G)
>
>> $ sudo gpart add -b 34 -t freebsd da0
>> da0s1 added
>
>> Why it is still s1? In my kernel config I have this :
>
> GPART(8) may be a good start here. Ex.:
> -----
> ...
> PARTITION TYPES
>     The gpart utility uses symbolic names for common partition types to avoid
>     that the user needs to know what the partitioning scheme in question is
>     and what the actual number or identification needs to be used for a par-
>     ticular type.  The gpart utility also allows the user to specify scheme-
>     specific partition types for partition types that do not have symbol
>     names.  The symbolic names currently understood are:
> ...
>     freebsd        A FreeBSD partition that uses the BSD disklabel to sub-
>                    divide the partition into file systems.  This is a legacy
>                    partition type and should not be used for the APM or GPT
>                    schemes.  The scheme-specific types are "!165" for MBR,
>                    "!FreeBSD" for APM, and
>                    "!516e7cb4-6ecf-11d6-8ff8-00022d09712b" for GPT.
> ...
> -----
>
>> device          crypto
>> options         GEOM_ELI
>> options         GEOM_PART_GPT
>> options         GEOM_LABEL
>> options         GEOM_VOL
>
>> Do I need something that I forgot?
>
> Seems you forgot to read the manual page carefully. ;-)
>
> --
> HTH & WBR, bsam
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Yes, a friend tole me there is a problem. But I was sure that a
freebsd slive even on GPT will be named da0s1 but he was really sure
so I asked here and I forgot to answer.

Cheers, :-)

-- 
Demelier David