From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 21 21:23:26 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5008B106568B for ; Wed, 21 Oct 2009 21:23:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sweetnavelorange@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ew0-f209.google.com (mail-ew0-f209.google.com [209.85.219.209]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D87A68FC12 for ; Wed, 21 Oct 2009 21:23:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy5 with SMTP id 5so3800469ewy.36 for ; Wed, 21 Oct 2009 14:23:24 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=6DZl9sjOmT+iCO+CwHvTd60/WbpF9ZJ1xFU9aC3YL+4=; b=upxhjIF/EpzCsLGq8TQWvtnJpbauxCadLqTWZ+8uWtQtiC/QhcF21bp7WaMap9xvNl f+lhEs3knakE/Bs2CqxwCZ76uLQKGDgzSNlw/PChW6KKYj+lpH+N0rp9qZzJX0W+x7ZF Qso9GIe7BWuQSAC/A/9ErpV0gXOKFk2wo+yjY= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=UJNbLFmpBR0Q3OAlgpW5cDJKKcr+RjpB9VNUoCaRjb/Xg7xHUBCJefOExIObbWEv00 tQOvbJ7qI394b9kNruqACH8vDrKRYtdK+ojmr2LvW8e95DNtlgaLebe0YdNb43BAIkUg cZ+kxPBMxva1QTg3MDWeo8UrmAlZU9ytavHW0= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.216.93.12 with SMTP id k12mr73515wef.195.1256160204571; Wed, 21 Oct 2009 14:23:24 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <5208B24B-0ED9-493F-81E4-04BF33FA9062@mac.com> References: <4ADE995A.8080009@ish.com.au> <5208B24B-0ED9-493F-81E4-04BF33FA9062@mac.com> Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2009 10:23:24 +1300 Message-ID: From: James Butler To: Marcel Moolenaar Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Jurgen Weber , Aristedes Maniatis Subject: Re: gpart, bsdlabel and fdisk X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2009 21:23:26 -0000 2009/10/22 Marcel Moolenaar : > > On Oct 20, 2009, at 10:17 PM, Aristedes Maniatis wrote: >> * is there some source of good documentation out there other than the man >> page for gpart? > > man gpart. I had to read the source. With respect, the man page for gpart(8) is slightly misleading - it lists the -s and -b parameters to 'add' as compulsory, and omits the 'interesting' (and useful) size suffix decoding logic. I would post a patch, but I have no working FreeBSD box for the next couple of weeks. My NZD$0.02, -James Butler