From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Tue Aug 4 20:07:19 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D7809B3BD2 for ; Tue, 4 Aug 2015 20:07:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from steve@sliderule.demon.co.uk) Received: from smtp.demon.co.uk (mdfmta010.mxout.tch.inty.net [91.221.169.51]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E7E1CFD4 for ; Tue, 4 Aug 2015 20:07:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from steve@sliderule.demon.co.uk) Received: from smtp.demon.co.uk (unknown [127.0.0.1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mdfmta010.tch.inty.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A27440088C for ; Tue, 4 Aug 2015 21:01:15 +0100 (BST) Received: from mdfmta009.tch.inty.net (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by mdfmta009.tch.inty.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id A7FE812815E for ; Tue, 4 Aug 2015 21:01:07 +0100 (BST) Received: from mdfmta009.tch.inty.net (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by mdfmta009.tch.inty.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 58E9612812F for ; Tue, 4 Aug 2015 21:01:07 +0100 (BST) Received: from [192.168.254.7] (unknown [80.177.21.188]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mdfmta009.tch.inty.net (Postfix) with ESMTP for ; Tue, 4 Aug 2015 21:01:07 +0100 (BST) Subject: Re: Base gpart vs. sysutils/gpart To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <55BF6AA0.2030802@bananmonarki.se> <55C1079F.5030608@sneakertech.com> <2888520.RJjyyPeuUg@desk8.phess.net> From: Steve Burton Message-ID: <55C11A01.9020500@sliderule.demon.co.uk> Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2015 21:01:05 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <2888520.RJjyyPeuUg@desk8.phess.net> X-MDF-HostID: 22 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.20 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 04 Aug 2015 20:07:19 -0000 On 04/08/2015 20:32, Patrick Hess wrote: > Quartz wrote: >>> Okay. Can you point me to a man page or utility distribution >>> with that version of gpart for Linux? >> Gparted Live: >> gpart v0.2.1 (c) 1999-2001 Michail Brzitwa > So I guess we're talking about this tool then (quoting from http://www.freshports.org/sysutils/gpart): > > A port of a tool which tries to guess the primary partition > table of a PC-type hard disk [...] > > WWW: http://brzitwa.de/mb/gpart/index.html (outdated) > > That's completely different from what FreeBSD's own gpart does. > Just because two tools happen to share the same name doesn't > necessarily mean that they'll also do the same thing. > > Patrick > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > As a case in point, typing 'killall httpd' on a FreeBSD or Linux box doesn't give the same result as typing it on a Solaris box, as I found out all by myself ... Steve.