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gpart will always say "Invalid argument" when add a new ufs partition
I am using the FreeBSD 14.0.
I follow the instructions at https://www.transip.eu/knowledgebase/entry/138-how-do-create-partition-freebsd/ to create a UFS partition, as below:
But always get "...
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using dd for clean MBR code doesn't work on pfSense
Trying to clean the mbr code part on a disk using the pfsense 2.7.0 live disk (pfsense is based on freebsd) under shell command.
being /dev/da0 my drive following the suggested code for clean just the ...
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"mount -t zfs -fw" can't mount a ZFS volume 100% of the time
Actually I have installed my daily work FreeBSD 13.1-RELEASE system on the ZFS disk ada0 :
=> 40 976773088 ada0 GPT (466G)
40 532480 1 efi (260M)
532520 ...
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Can't create FAT32 partition with gpart under FreeBSD
Gpart (not gparted) under FreeBSD has problems to add a FAT32 partition when using GPT (works with MBR).
This is the disk:
% gpart show /dev/da0
=> 40 15257520 da0 GPT (7.3G)
40 ...
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How to fix my partition after mistaken gpart bootcode?
I was trying to make my HDD bootable and did
gpart bootcode -b /boot/pmbr -p /boot/gptboot -i1 ada0s1
and now I got "Invalid partition" message on boot.
/boot was from USB drive, not from HDD (...
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Resizing partitions for EC2 FreeBSD instance without reboot
I modified the volume size for a partition on AWS Console and it does not show up in gpart show. It does show up after the reboot. I didn't have to reboot an Ubuntu instance to resize. Am I missing ...
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How to format & mount a large partition with 4k sector size in Freebsd?
gpart show -l:
=> 6 146239733 da0 GPT (558G)
6 10 - free - (40K)
16 128 1 (null) (512K)
144 262144 2 efi (1.0G)
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Resizing UFS /root partition on FreeBSD
Is there a way to resize a UFS /root partition while running OS which resides on it? I am running FreeBSD.
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How to clone and extend to new disk in FreeBSD?
A server running FreeBSD has been in production since ~2004. Recently there was a power outage and upon reboot it displays an error message "...filesystem full".
It was on a 40 GB drive from back ...
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Mount FreeBSD UFS from logical partition under Linux
How can I mount the FreeBSD UFS boot partition under Ubuntu in this setup:
a single HDD which contains
an MBR partition table which contains
some primary Linux partitions and an extended partition ...
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Move FreeBSD installation to smaller HDD [duplicate]
Good day!
I have FreeBSD installation with next partitions:
Now FreeBSD is installed in 500GB hard drive. I want to move it to 250GB hard drive. What is safest and correct way to do it?
I'm afraid ...
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How to modify partition in FreeBSD 10 with gpart
I am using FreeBSD. My HDD has this set of partitions:
root@core:/media # gpart show
=> 63 390721905 ada0 MBR (186G)
63 1985 - free - (993K)
2048 ...
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Cannot install PC BSD
Currently I am using Ubuntu. I wanted to try PC BSD so downloaded 10.2. On trying to install it on a separate primary partition(so that I can dual-boot) I am getting the following error.
Do anyone ...
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understand the output of bsdlabel
I have a Juniper router which uses Junos(based on FreeBSD) operating system where I can backup certain partitions from router CLI. Under the hood router starts the restore process and copies /dev/...
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lost FreeBSD efi loader after upgrading windows 10
How to return option to load FreeBSD, after it was lost next to upgrading windows 10.
I use uefi-FreeBSD10, and didn't created another one ESP.
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