- Mention that VTOC8 labels are found in Fujitsu SPARC64 machines as well.

- Add information regarding VTOC8 bootrstrap code and how it's handled with
  r208777 in place.
- Document the mapping of partition types to VTOC8 tags.
- Add examples for VTOC8 to the respective section.
- Eliminated hard sentence breaks.

Reviewed by:	marcel (slightly buggy version)
MFC after:	3 days
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Marius Strobl 2010-06-03 13:04:56 +00:00
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.\"
.\" $FreeBSD$
.\"
.Dd April 22, 2010
.Dd June 3, 2010
.Dt GPART 8
.Os
.Sh NAME
@ -72,7 +72,10 @@ NEC PC-98 computers.
The
.Dv GEOM_PART_VTOC8
option adds support for Sun's SMI VTOC8 label as
found on UltraSPARC-based computers.
found on computers based on
.Tn SPARC64
and
.Tn UltraSPARC.
.Pp
Usage of the
.Ns Nm
@ -221,9 +224,15 @@ The
.Fl p Ar partcode
option specifies a file that contains the bootstrap code intended to be
written to a partition.
For the VTOC8 scheme, it is a 8192 byte file of which the last 7680 bytes
are installed as bootstrap code.
The partition is specified by the
.Fl i Ar index
option.
For the VTOC8 scheme, if the
.Fl i Ar index
option is omitted, the bootstrap code is written to all sufficiently large
partitions.
The size of the file must be smaller than the size of the partition.
.Pp
Additional options include:
@ -343,10 +352,12 @@ Resize a partition from geom
.Ar geom
and further identified by the
.Fl i Ar index
option. New partition size is expressed in logical block
option.
New partition size is expressed in logical block
numbers and can be given by the
.Fl s Ar size
option. If
option.
If
.Fl s
option is ommited then new size is automatically calculated
to maximum available from given geom
@ -448,36 +459,36 @@ A
partition dedicated to swap space.
The scheme-specific types are
.Qq Li "!FreeBSD-swap"
for APM, and
for APM,
.Qq Li "!516e7cb5-6ecf-11d6-8ff8-00022d09712b"
for GPT.
for GPT, and tag 0x0901 for VTOC8.
.It Cm freebsd-ufs
A
.Fx
partition that contains a UFS or UFS2 file system.
The scheme-specific types are
.Qq Li "!FreeBSD-UFS"
for APM, and
for APM,
.Qq Li "!516e7cb6-6ecf-11d6-8ff8-00022d09712b"
for GPT.
for GPT, and tag 0x0902 for VTOC8.
.It Cm freebsd-vinum
A
.Fx
partition that contains a Vinum volume.
The scheme-specific types are
.Qq Li "!FreeBSD-Vinum"
for APM, and
for APM,
.Qq Li "!516e7cb8-6ecf-11d6-8ff8-00022d09712b"
for GPT.
for GPT, and tag 0x0903 for VTOC8.
.It Cm freebsd-zfs
A
.Fx
partition that contains a ZFS volume.
The scheme-specific types are
.Qq Li "!FreeBSD-ZFS"
for APM, and
for APM,
.Qq Li "!516e7cba-6ecf-11d6-8ff8-00022d09712b"
for GPT.
for GPT, and 0x0904 for VTOC8.
.It Cm mbr
A partition that is sub-partitioned by a master boot record (MBR).
This type is known as
@ -543,10 +554,28 @@ future need (e.g.\& from a ZFS partition).
.Pp
Create a 512MB-sized
.Cm freebsd-ufs
partition that would contain UFS where the system boot from.
partition that would contain UFS where the system boots from.
.Bd -literal -offset indent
/sbin/gpart add -b 162 -s 1048576 -t freebsd-ufs ad0
.Ed
.Pp
Create VTOC8 scheme on
.Pa da0 .
.Bd -literal -offset indent
/sbin/gpart create -s VTOC8 da0
.Ed
.Pp
Create a 512MB-sized
.Cm freebsd-ufs
partition that would contain UFS where the system boots from.
.Bd -literal -offset indent
/sbin/gpart add -b 0 -s 1048576 -t freebsd-ufs da0
.Ed
.Pp
After having created all required partitions, embed bootstrap code into them.
.Bd -literal -offset indent
/sbin/gpart bootcode -p /boot/boot1 da0
.Ed
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr geom 4 ,
.Xr geom 8