Date: Mon, 06 Dec 2010 09:10:56 +0300 From: "Andrey V. Elsukov" <bu7cher@yandex.ru> To: perryh@pluto.rain.com Cc: demelier.david@gmail.com, joost@jodocus.org, xcllnt@mac.com, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: can't mount root during freebsd-update 7.0 -> 8.1 on amd64 Message-ID: <4CFC7E70.7000405@yandex.ru> In-Reply-To: <4cfc2a1e.rR/F7W1rhymw3F2n%perryh@pluto.rain.com> References: <d4da7a77756c4678132be5f2a147ce56.squirrel@jodocus.org> <AANLkTikPSSTeOWHbKfypisrdRjrA7uPP_GMRZ5qNkHsT@mail.gmail.com> <4cfc2a1e.rR/F7W1rhymw3F2n%perryh@pluto.rain.com>
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On 06.12.2010 3:11, perryh@pluto.rain.com wrote: >> GEOM_PART (gpart) is a new GEOM partition class (slicer) and >> utility that rolls up support for many partitioning formats >> (MBR, BSD, GPT etc.) into a single code base. >> ... >> NOTE: Some old utilities like bsdlabel may not work if the kernel >> doesn't include GEOM_BSD and other old slicer classes. In other >> words, bsdlabel et al don't work with GEOM_PART. > > Does this mean that, in 8.1-RELEASE, bsdlabel/disklabel will not work > with the GENERIC kernel (which includes GEOM_PART_GPT and GEOM_LABEL, > but no other GEOM_ pieces AFAICT)? No, It doesn't. You can create partitions with fdisk/bsdlabel. They do write directly to device and this does initiate tasting. And GPART detects created partitions. -- WBR, Andrey V. Elsukov
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