From owner-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Fri Dec 30 19:04:44 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@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 5CF83C97D08 for ; Fri, 30 Dec 2016 19:04:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ae@FreeBSD.org) Received: from butcher-nb.yandex.net (freefall.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:6074::16:84]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6BEC016BA; Fri, 30 Dec 2016 19:04:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ae@FreeBSD.org) Subject: Re: How to safely remove rest of GTP? To: Ian Lepore , Slawa Olhovchenkov References: <20161230124407.GN37118@zxy.spb.ru> <20161230164652.GO37118@zxy.spb.ru> <22d5dece-f14b-3bef-b3dd-8bb6226e0d28@FreeBSD.org> <1483119430.16152.83.camel@freebsd.org> <071295b5-f7d8-d09b-13f9-416524a1f654@FreeBSD.org> <1483124564.16152.85.camel@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org From: "Andrey V. Elsukov" Message-ID: <1b8d6b48-8e8e-95f0-22d6-f75cc9025c11@FreeBSD.org> Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2016 22:04:06 +0300 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.5.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1483124564.16152.85.camel@freebsd.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2016 19:04:44 -0000 On 30.12.2016 22:02, Ian Lepore wrote: > > Do you seriously believe that people are going to just do a gpart > destroy -F on a device with a valid MBR as a method of preserving that > mbr? If that's the kind of thinking behind the gpart interface, I > guess that helps explain why it's so nearly impossible to understand > and use already. People, who have valid MBR will never see messages about corrupt GPT. -- WBR, Andrey V. Elsukov