Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2011 08:50:33 +0400 From: "Andrey V. Elsukov" <bu7cher@yandex.ru> To: Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org> Cc: Garrett Cooper <yanegomi@gmail.com>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net> Subject: Re: Well, there goes Windows! Message-ID: <4E51E019.4060206@yandex.ru> In-Reply-To: <4E519C13.4060700@freebsd.org> References: <CAGH67wRFP9nFQLr0Gh-h4rKWrndZSy=6Q%2BKLC_U5Fg4RD%2BJMCw@mail.gmail.com> <4E4DB9A7.4040404@freebsd.org> <CAGH67wQoXOju3=OTh%2B6JoKLxkp7Vzqu8vg%2BO9X=DPXB5EkBJtQ@mail.gmail.com> <4E517978.2020705@freebsd.org> <64622705-80AB-4FEF-91E9-8F3041818B4E@xcllnt.net> <4E519C13.4060700@freebsd.org>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On 22.08.2011 4:00, Nathan Whitehorn wrote: > The larger problem is that this behavior means that destroying gparts sometimes doesn't work at > all. For instance, if you have nested partitioning like MBR+BSD (or EBR) it is not possible to > destroy the underlying MBR geom without committing the destruction of the BSD geom. This is > because the MBR geom cannot be destroyed, even without committing, while it continues to have > children, which it does due to the ghost geom for the BSD slice. Actually you can destroy underlying MBR geom without committing, just use "force" flag. But there is another problem, the metadata of nested scheme will not deleted and it might appear again when you create new MBR and new partition in the same place. -- WBR, Andrey V. Elsukov [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (MingW32) iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJOUeAdAAoJEAHF6gQQyKF6vAkH/A6jsqVHkTVaRNvqMSdZhvbT prSSLgBl547+IW543jZLlb3n8w2tFQRd104+cVPltg4lzZtHl9T9rs8FdkLCsMJr c263MYOS28GC8vVgvBI4+4leM72Wgs0NOcUb7u+oqP4omwNSMuo0f62qNQFToXEw sIygGATMqH3i5+ILAOVzmtbplCXK5qLFElxW9guERpDyOdgAm59nCmRr5pNkEq8a b6C+R2cE50luEHmpLpQn2tsSZoXf+ZBOSUSWCEmPMgeQO+irT/vtZ4pMwRgZUVec aic9K8BeCGQg2lzi2RePgk6bWY5WJhXTFUcmlI4/HANJgRsc8m3jvOUD6PQAQgE= =TdiM -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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