Having created GPT disk, next you need to copy contents from old disk to new disk. Use the "geom drive list" to get right device name for you machine. NOTE: The /dev disk naming is dependent on the disk driver being used the most common once are: (see - "Clone the disk contents" below) Next need to copy from old MBR file contents to new GPT / UEFI disk dev/ad8p1: 409328 sectors in 25583 FAT16 clusters (8192 bytes/cluster)īytesPerSec=512 SecPerClust=16 ResSectors=1 FATs=2 RootDirEnts=512 Media=0xf0 FATsecs=100 SecPerTrack=63 Heads=16 HiddenSecs=0 HugeSectors=409563 Newfs_msdos: trim 37 sectors to adjust to a multiple of 63 Use the remaining space for SWAP, this is optionalĭispute-db# gpart add -t freebsd-swap -i 3 ad8 # gpart add -t freebsd-ufs -s 1G -i 2 ad8 In FreeBSD you can find disk by looking at the /dev tree for ad, cd, da and other disk device name or list the "geometry class device" (from the day of spinning disk): "geom disk list" and the partition information via "df" and reviewing "/etc/fstab" & /dev file system:. I have had no success with 32 bit FreeBSD and UEFI boot. NOTE: I have only done this sucessfull with 64 bit FreeBSD versions.
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