From owner-freebsd-geom@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 18 12:56:52 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 85F9C106564A for ; Thu, 18 Nov 2010 12:56:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from avg@freebsd.org) Received: from citadel.icyb.net.ua (citadel.icyb.net.ua [212.40.38.140]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AEA4E8FC1D for ; Thu, 18 Nov 2010 12:56:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from odyssey.starpoint.kiev.ua (alpha-e.starpoint.kiev.ua [212.40.38.101]) by citadel.icyb.net.ua (8.8.8p3/ICyb-2.3exp) with ESMTP id OAA22966; Thu, 18 Nov 2010 14:44:19 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from avg@freebsd.org) Message-ID: <4CE51FA3.60907@freebsd.org> Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2010 14:44:19 +0200 From: Andriy Gapon User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD amd64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101029 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Andrey V. Elsukov" References: <4CE505B2.6010601@yandex.ru> In-Reply-To: <4CE505B2.6010601@yandex.ru> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=KOI8-R Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Subject: Re: backup a partition table with gpart(8) X-BeenThere: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: GEOM-specific discussions and implementations List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2010 12:56:52 -0000 on 18/11/2010 12:53 Andrey V. Elsukov said the following: > Hi, Marcel and All. > > I'm thinking about such feature like ability to dump partition > table into file from which it can be recovered in the future. > Also it can be used to copy partition table to another device. I think that we ought to have such a feature. -- Andriy Gapon