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On Aug 21, 2011, at 2:32 PM, Nathan Whitehorn wrote:
>=20
> gpart does not support (well, anyway) changing the underlying =
partition table format without committing changes. Replacing the =
partition scheme, which this does, is such an operation.

Weird. I could always destroy tables, create new ones using a
different scheme and populate it with partitions without there
being a single write to disk. The commit/undo logic worked
just as well for those operations as the simpler ones. Did that
get broken or are you just mistaken?

--=20
Marcel Moolenaar
marcel@xcllnt.net