From owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 23 13:09:33 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7CDB9106566B for ; Fri, 23 Apr 2010 13:09:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lists@mawer.org) Received: from mail-bw0-f227.google.com (mail-bw0-f227.google.com [209.85.218.227]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 162438FC08 for ; Fri, 23 Apr 2010 13:09:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bwz27 with SMTP id 27so993403bwz.13 for ; Fri, 23 Apr 2010 06:09:31 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.103.213.18 with HTTP; Fri, 23 Apr 2010 05:42:39 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4BD191CF.40106@icyb.net.ua> References: <20100423082345.GA27379@icarus.home.lan> <4BD1615E.9010909@yandex.ru> <4BD191CF.40106@icyb.net.ua> Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2010 22:42:39 +1000 Received: by 10.102.16.24 with SMTP id 24mr3319473mup.121.1272026559738; Fri, 23 Apr 2010 05:42:39 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: From: Antony Mawer To: Andriy Gapon Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: kern.geom.debugflags=16 does NOT allow me to write to device X-BeenThere: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Filesystems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2010 13:09:33 -0000 On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 10:25 PM, Andriy Gapon wrote: > on 23/04/2010 13:34 Peter Schuller said the following: >>> It's easy. >> >> Thank you for posting the example. I never really understood that >> gpart was to be the generic tool; I thought it was gpt specific. >> Obviously I should have read up better. >> >> Is gpart to be considered "tested", "stable", "production quality" >> and/or "default" now then, or is it still cutting edge/experimental? > > Yes, it's "tested", "stable", "production quality" and/or "default". ... > gpart is the way to go and is the best tool to use on recent FreeBSD. Agreed. Having just gone through updating $work's installer to use gpart instead, it makes partitioning so much more pleasant and consistent than previous tools... --Antony