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

[Erich Dollansky]

Hi,

On Sat, 12 Jan 2013 09:56:39 -0700 (MST)
Warren Block <wblock at wonkity.com> wrote:

> On Sat, 12 Jan 2013, Erich Dollansky wrote:
> 
> > 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
> 
> There is no need for all this.  You already created GPT labels with
> 'gpt -l' above.  And those labels don't need extra metadata at the
> end of the partition.
> 
For what is glabel then still good?

> And consider using -U with newfs.

Do not worry, this was just for the test.

Erich