Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2009 19:16:34 +0800 (CST) From: Tai-hwa Liang <avatar@mmlab.cse.yzu.edu.tw> To: Marcel Moolenaar <xcllnt@mac.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Removal of GEOM_BSD, GEOM_MBR, GEOM_PC98 and GEOM_SUNLABEL Message-ID: <0904011910169.29800@www.mmlab.cse.yzu.edu.tw> In-Reply-To: <60084D1E-9F64-463A-A8E9-7A237D5C7661@mac.com> References: <DED07257-A1C7-4504-9A9E-CAAC2A9737D6@mac.com> <95891.1238477069@critter.freebsd.dk> <20090331133132.1e191836@ernst.jennejohn.org> <gqt3um$f77$3@ger.gmane.org> <20090331155542.74d89d64@ernst.jennejohn.org> <60084D1E-9F64-463A-A8E9-7A237D5C7661@mac.com>
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On Tue, 31 Mar 2009, Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
>
> On Mar 31, 2009, at 6:55 AM, Gary Jennejohn wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I have some disks which were partitioned before GEOM or gpart even
>>>> existed. If this means that I can't use them any more I'll be very
>>>> ticked off.
>>>
>>> No, the question is which GEOM class to use to parse the partition table
>>> :)
>>>
>>> gpart is new, shiny, but with some rough edges (most of which have been
>>> polished by now), GEOM_xxx were the old classes. 8-CURRENT doesn't use
>>> the old classes but they are still there if anyone needs them.
>>>
>>
>> Well, that would be OK then, as long as I can still _use_ the old classes
>> after the removal of the various GEOM_XXX options.
>
> Why do you want to use the old classes when gpart can be used?
>
> BTW: it was my intention to remove the source files along with
> the options. So you wouldn't be able to use the old classes.
That's too bad. Since my /home is sitting on the extended partition,
the OS won't boot unless the kernel is built with various GEOM_PART_
removed from i386/conf/DEFAULT plus GEOM_{BSD,MBR} added back to the kernel
configuration file(ie: GENERIC kernel cvsup'ed today doesn't boot).
# gpart show
=> 0 31250961 ad0s7c BSD (15G)
0 31250945 1 freebsd-ufs (15G)
31250945 16 - free - (8.0K)
=> 0 16783200 ad0s2c BSD (8.0G)
0 786432 1 freebsd-ufs (384M)
786432 4194304 2 freebsd-swap (2.0G)
4980736 393216 4 freebsd-ufs (192M)
5373952 11409248 5 freebsd-ufs (5.4G)
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Cheers,
Tai-hwa Liang
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