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Date:      Mon, 23 Apr 2007 22:03:45 +0200
From:      Ivan Voras <ivoras@fer.hr>
To:        freebsd-geom@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: GPT as default?
Message-ID:  <f0j3f2$75a$1@sea.gmane.org>
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Marcel Moolenaar wrote:

>> >> I was happy with it until I discovered I cannot modify the partition
>> >> table  :)
> >
> > You mean that setting kern.geom.debugflags=16 doesn't work?

It works, yes, but at the time I didn't know about it.

> > Check out src/tools/regression/geom_gpt. There's a little C program
> > that converts the arguments into a gctl structure. It's used to test
> > the verbs. It was that simple to manipulate partitions with geom_gpt
> > and it's that simple to do the same with the g_part class. Only
> > minor changes were made to support multiple partitioning schemes
> > (see the gpt branch in Perforce).
> >
> > You can partition disks that way, so it should be really simple
> > overall.

Thanks, I'll check it out.





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