Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2009 10:54:46 -0700 From: Marcel Moolenaar <xcllnt@mac.com> To: Aristedes Maniatis <ari@ish.com.au> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Jurgen Weber <jurgen@ish.com.au> Subject: Re: gpart, bsdlabel and fdisk Message-ID: <5208B24B-0ED9-493F-81E4-04BF33FA9062@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <4ADE995A.8080009@ish.com.au> References: <4ADE995A.8080009@ish.com.au>
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On Oct 20, 2009, at 10:17 PM, Aristedes Maniatis wrote: > > * is this the future for FreeBSD and we should use gpart from here > on? Are the old tools deprecated? Yes. > * we tried to reinstall the machine with some 7.2 CDs but the > gparted disks caused fdisk to crash. Is this expected? No, but that's because I don't know how buggy fdisk is. > * is the result of using gpart completely different to the bsdlabel/ > fdisk we've known? Are the partitions on disk quite different? The on-disk layout is dictated and cannot be different. As such, they are the same. > * is there some source of good documentation out there other than > the man page for gpart? man gpart. > > * has the MBR changed now with gpart? No. -- Marcel Moolenaar xcllnt@mac.com
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