Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 10:05:49 +0200 From: Andriy Gapon <avg@icyb.net.ua> To: Marcel Moolenaar <xcllnt@mac.com> Cc: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Subject: Re: "unused" partition: disklabel vs. gpart Message-ID: <4922775D.6050701@icyb.net.ua> In-Reply-To: <A5A7F45B-3874-4390-8EF6-46B5B7E27171@mac.com> References: <4919879E.5080900@icyb.net.ua> <BA00E067-34D7-45A0-8882-B0FFB8AC7340@mac.com> <A5A7F45B-3874-4390-8EF6-46B5B7E27171@mac.com>
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on 18/11/2008 07:56 Marcel Moolenaar said the following: > > On Nov 17, 2008, at 8:42 PM, Marcel Moolenaar wrote: > >> [sorry for the delay] >> >> On Nov 11, 2008, at 5:24 AM, Andriy Gapon wrote: >> >>> E.g. I had a label with a single partition 'd' with type unused. I >>> actually put ZFS pool into this partition, but marked it 'unused', so >>> that some smart scripts on certain live cds do not try to mount or >>> swappon the partitions. This worked OK with geom_bsd, but geom_part_bsd >>> considered the slice entirely empty, it didn't find the 'd' partition >>> in it. >> >> Hmmm... Let me think about this one. While I don't >> like the ambiguity, if historically you could have >> partitions of type FS_UNUSED (other than 'c') then >> GPart should allow that too... > > I fixed GPart. > Thanks for pointing it out. > Thank you! -- Andriy Gapon
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