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Subject: Re: Is it possible to run gpart and newfs on file without root access
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On 21 January 2013 06:08, Andriy Gapon <avg@freebsd.org> wrote:

> I would be more happy to have gpart-in-userland :-)

Well, we need geom-in-userland. That would let us do arbitrary
manipulation of partition tables in files and disk images as needed.

It'd also allow for some very cool regression testing.



Adrian