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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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On 22.08.2011 4:00, Nathan Whitehorn wrote:
> The larger problem is that this behavior means that destroying gparts s=
ometimes 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 t=
he BSD geom. This is
> because the MBR geom cannot be destroyed, even without committing, whil=
e 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 dele=
ted and it might
appear again when you create new MBR and new partition in the same place.=


--=20
WBR, Andrey V. Elsukov


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