Re: gpart: can not add MBR partitions with "gpart add -t mbr"

On Tue, 18 Jun 2013 11:09+0200, O. Hartmann wrote:

> 
> Having a 1TB disk with a MBR partition layout created successfully with
> "gpart create -s MBR ada4", which is shown as
> 
> Geom name: ada4
> modified: false
> state: OK
> fwheads: 16
> fwsectors: 63
> last: 1953525167
> first: 63
> entries: 4
> scheme: MBR
> Consumers:
> 1. Name: ada4
>    Mediasize: 1000204886016 (931G)
>    Sectorsize: 512
>    Mode: r0w0e0
> 
> 
> it is impossible for me to create a partition with 
> 
> gpart add -t mbr ada4

Right, that should be a partition, not a partition table.

Try: gpart add -t freebsd-ufs ada4

> as it can be read in the manpage of gpart. Whatever I do, I receive a
> useless error from gpart
> 
> gpart: Invalid argument
> 
> with no further information. 
> 
> In kernel, I already added GEOM_MBR. geom_part_mbr and geom_part_ldm
> kernel modules are then already loaded.
> 
> I tried to figure out what's going wrong but this seems highly
> enigmatic. 
> 
> What am I doing wrong?
> 
> Regards and thanks,
> 
> Oliver

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