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Cc: FreeBSD Arch <arch@freebsd.org>, Marcel Moolenaar <xcllnt@mac.com>
Subject: Re: RFC: making gpart default
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"Peter Wemm" <peter@wemm.org> writes:
> After continuing the guessing game:
>
> overcee# gpart create -s gpt /dev/twed1
> gpart: 22 provider '/dev/twed1'
>
> That was useful.  Out other tools generally allow /dev prefixes to be opt=
ional.

In this case, twed1 is the name of a GEOM provider, not a device.  I'm
not sure all GEOM providers necessarily have device nodes - at least,
the GEOM framework doesn't enforce it - and for those that do, the
device name might not match the GEOM name.

DES
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