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Date:      Fri, 11 Jul 2014 15:02:45 -0600 (MDT)
From:      Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>
To:        "Michael W. Lucas" <mwlucas@michaelwlucas.com>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: gpart and bsdlabel
Message-ID:  <alpine.BSF.2.11.1407111500560.48512@wonkity.com>
In-Reply-To: <20140711201114.GA2064@bewilderbeast.blackhelicopters.org>
References:  <20140711201114.GA2064@bewilderbeast.blackhelicopters.org>

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On Fri, 11 Jul 2014, Michael W. Lucas wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm gradually switching from the familiar and comfortable agony of
> fdisk/disklabel to gpart.
>
> In the past, our org has avoided certain partition letters on specific
> drives. If the drive isn't a boot drive, it has no 'a" partition. If
> it has no swap, it has no 'b' partition.
>
> gpart assigns partition letters in the order in which they're created.
>
> Is there a way to specify which partition letter you want to create,
> or start with, or something?

Interesting question.  I always figured the letters were dynamic.  If 
they are static, maybe -l could be used to assign them to BSD 
partitions.



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