gpart

Examples

gpart create -s MBR /dev/mdX

... creates an MBR sector on device mdX

gpart add -s 32m -t '!12' /dev/mdX

... creates a 32MB MSDOS partition on mdX

gpart add -t freebsd /dev/mdX

... creates a FreeBSD partition

gpart set -a active -i 1 /dev/mdX

... makes the first partition on mdX active

gpart create -s BSD /dev/mdXsY

... creates a BSD partitioning scheme inside that partition

gpart add -t freebsd-ufs /dev/mdXsY

... adds a UFS partition to /dev/mdXsY