gpart usage

[Andrey V. Elsukov]

On 24.05.2011 19:09, Victor Balada Diaz wrote:
> On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 06:46:01PM +0400, Andrey V. Elsukov wrote:
>> On 24.05.2011 17:20, Victor Balada Diaz wrote:
>>> also, how do i know about offsets each partitioning scheme needs? shouldn't GEOM
>>> take care of it without user needing to know anything about it?
>>
>> Usually you do not need to know anything about offsets.
> 
> So the 16 sector offset in BSD label is really needed or isn't?

First 8 KBytes of the freebsd partition are reserved for the boot code
(/boot/boot). The table of BSD partitions itself is located in the
second sector. So, if you plan to create freebsd-ufs partition you can
create it without any offset. But if it will be not an UFS partition,
then i would created it with offset, otherwise you can wipe the BSD label.

-- 
WBR, Andrey V. Elsukov

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