Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2014 15:02:45 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> To: "Michael W. Lucas" <mwlucas@michaelwlucas.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gpart and bsdlabel Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.11.1407111500560.48512@wonkity.com> In-Reply-To: <20140711201114.GA2064@bewilderbeast.blackhelicopters.org> References: <20140711201114.GA2064@bewilderbeast.blackhelicopters.org>
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On Fri, 11 Jul 2014, Michael W. Lucas wrote: > Hi, > > I'm gradually switching from the familiar and comfortable agony of > fdisk/disklabel to gpart. > > In the past, our org has avoided certain partition letters on specific > drives. If the drive isn't a boot drive, it has no 'a" partition. If > it has no swap, it has no 'b' partition. > > gpart assigns partition letters in the order in which they're created. > > Is there a way to specify which partition letter you want to create, > or start with, or something? Interesting question. I always figured the letters were dynamic. If they are static, maybe -l could be used to assign them to BSD partitions.
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