shrinking of FreeBSD root partition on GPT

[Arthur Chance]

On 08/11/2014 16:16, Warren Block wrote:
> On Sat, 8 Nov 2014, Coert wrote:
>
>>> On a slightly different subject, are you using GPT partition labels? If
>>> not, it might be worth reading Warren Block's excellent article about
>>> them here
>>>
>>> http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/labels.html
>>
>> Thank you! I am implementing the labeling now.
>
> That article talks about filesystem labels.  GPT labels are created with
> gpart(8).  GPT labels do not take any extra space for metadata and do
> not require a filesystem, so they are more versatile.  I don't have an
> article on them specifically, but the usage is shown here:
> http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/disksetup.html

Slaps forehead. I answered the OP quickly and didn't check. Thanks for 
catching that Warren.