gpart, glabel and newfs --> what am I doing wrong

Erich Dollansky erichsfreebsdlist at alogt.com
Sat Jan 12 12:23:22 UTC 2013


Hi,

in general, I try to create the partitions with gpart, add a label with
glabel and put a filesystem. I think that I am doing something very
simple the wrong way but I cannot see the error.

I try to do it in the following way:

# gpart destroy -F da0
# gpart create -s GPT da0
# gpart add -t freebsd-boot -s 64k da0
# gpart bootcode -b /boot/pmbr -p /boot/gptboot -i 1 da0
# gpart add -t freebsd-ufs -s 512m -a 4k -l Toshiba16GB2boot da0
# gpart add -t freebsd-ufs -s 10m -a 4k -l Toshiba16GB2root da0
# gpart add -t freebsd-swap -s 10m -a 4k -l Toshiba16GB2swap da0
# gpart add -t freebsd-ufs -s 10m -a 4k -l Toshiba16GB2var da0
# gpart add -t freebsd-ufs -s 10m -a 4k -l Toshiba16GB2tmp da0
# gpart add -t freebsd-ufs -a 4k -l Toshiba16GB2usr da0

Label the partitions:

# glabel label Toshiba16GB2boot /dev/da0p2
# glabel label Toshiba16GB2root /dev/da0p3
# glabel label Toshiba16GB2swap /dev/da0p4
# glabel label Toshiba16GB2var /dev/da0p5
# glabel label Toshiba16GB2tmp /dev/da0p6
# glabel label Toshiba16GB2usr /dev/da0p7

And put a file system onto the partitions.

# newfs /dev/label/Toshiba16GB2boo
# newfs /dev/label/Toshiba16GB2roo
# newfs /dev/label/Toshiba16GB2var
# newfs /dev/label/Toshiba16GB2tmp
# newfs /dev/label/Toshiba16GB2usr

But newfs on the first partition results in this:

Filesystem size 15 < minimum size of 48

When I ran the newfs directly on the device, I get this:

[X220]/home/erich (root) > newfs /dev/da0p2
/dev/da0p2: 512.0MB (1048576 sectors) block size 32768, fragment size
4096 using 4 cylinder groups of 128.03MB, 4097 blks, 16512 inodes.
super-block backups (for fsck -b #) at:
 192, 262400, 524608, 786816

Of course, this is what I expect.

I believe that it is something simple but I am not able to see my
mistake.

Erich


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