Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2014 20:45:59 -0500 From: Mark Felder <feld@FreeBSD.org> To: "Andrey V. Elsukov" <ae@FreeBSD.org> Cc: svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org, Dmitry Morozovsky <marck@rinet.ru> Subject: Re: svn commit: r267357 - head/sys/geom/part Message-ID: <0F8CDDB4-6A5D-41BB-BFE7-96F431E4224A@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <53995119.5040609@FreeBSD.org> References: <201406111019.s5BAJBjW085880@svn.freebsd.org> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1406111747320.86394@woozle.rinet.ru> <53995119.5040609@FreeBSD.org>
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On Jun 12, 2014, at 2:04, Andrey V. Elsukov <ae@FreeBSD.org> wrote: > On 11.06.2014 17:48, Dmitry Morozovsky wrote: >> On Wed, 11 Jun 2014, Andrey V. Elsukov wrote: >>=20 >>> Author: ae >>> Date: Wed Jun 11 10:19:11 2014 >>> New Revision: 267357 >>> URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/267357 >>>=20 >>> Log: >>> Add aliases for DragonFlyBSD's partition types. >>=20 >> These should be documented in sbin/geom/class/part/gpart.8 also. >=20 > I don't think we should document partition types for all foreign > systems. gpart(8) exists only in FreeBSD and it's purpose manage > partitions in FreeBSD. We already have a lot of NetBSD's and Apple's > aliases that aren't documented, but nobody complained about that. >=20 > In this case it is mostly cosmetic change. It allows to see aliases in > the `gpart show` output. Having a lot of partition types documented can > confuse users. IMHO. :) >=20 I use freebsd as a desktop and I regularly plug in a device and attempt = to initialize or read disks meant for many different systems. The more = aliases included the better.
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