From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 17 12:02:03 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6328B106564A for ; Mon, 17 Sep 2012 12:02:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from utisoft@gmail.com) Received: from mail-bk0-f54.google.com (mail-bk0-f54.google.com [209.85.214.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D88F38FC0A for ; Mon, 17 Sep 2012 12:02:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bkcje9 with SMTP id je9so2268315bkc.13 for ; Mon, 17 Sep 2012 05:02:01 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=MxolGl/k9Rr3Amy9KxURmR1ACjxFOTLtAPMhVbS6UZ4=; b=Y/xTOrVRJKFxnginp0HmNcyM8KehPJtfgADuy3jKUSfLtHEaMl9cCMzNrr3Om+ocLD Ev+0cNZFKWPfZTt3EwO9vL1YQtifeIWGWv+fG9dJv4rvjlvL2q6/aEEeDSYT+BknNvgr P85sXl7VMC7nKVnKoBo9+5NPbVmjEOyTJwF1arCd42lCf9I0mAltulv7fNgM3p5lARbc 21eOd6ga3yOkq3x1RU0OSgMEaZ9a1nZqqqg+3Jms6QI+f00RscY8o3bg+WsiLJ5om7Cm KOGpyfqgZh6hHvG3jQx0tfJLFFqJh2PYfcvu091YadvrQV8IG1Ycv/FKa1EQHE7rbkPZ l9Zg== MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.204.152.27 with SMTP id e27mr4178949bkw.56.1347883321842; Mon, 17 Sep 2012 05:02:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.204.10.141 with HTTP; Mon, 17 Sep 2012 05:02:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.204.10.141 with HTTP; Mon, 17 Sep 2012 05:02:01 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <20120916120041.391C41065680@hub.freebsd.org> <505624A9.7040508@hesiod.org> Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2012 13:02:01 +0100 Message-ID: From: Chris Rees To: Wojciech Puchar Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: Tom Evans , freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Jeff Anton Subject: Re: gpart is junk X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2012 12:02:03 -0000 On 17 Sep 2012 12:58, "Wojciech Puchar" wrote: >> >> IMHO, gpart and GEOM are fantastic. > > > anyway it is MUCH easier and faster to edit disklabels with bsdlabel -e than with gpart. > > Unfortunately since some time bsdlabel cannot edit labels if ANY of partitions are open. You may be more familiar with manually editing slice tables, but it is very easy to mess up. Chris