From owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 26 15:26:10 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8DE341065693; Fri, 26 Sep 2008 15:26:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from xcllnt@mac.com) Received: from asmtpout022.mac.com (asmtpout022.mac.com [17.148.16.97]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 77A198FC0A; Fri, 26 Sep 2008 15:26:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from xcllnt@mac.com) MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Received: from [192.168.1.95] (209-128-86-226.BAYAREA.NET [209.128.86.226]) by asmtp022.mac.com (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 6.3-7.03 (built Aug 7 2008; 32bit)) with ESMTPSA id <0K7T0031F42ZW860@asmtp022.mac.com>; Fri, 26 Sep 2008 07:25:48 -0700 (PDT) Message-id: <3B2BD6FE-85D4-49F8-81A0-B2AB048ACFE8@mac.com> From: Marcel Moolenaar To: Ivan Voras In-reply-to: Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2008 07:25:47 -0700 References: <1896.1222371977@critter.freebsd.dk> <901FB1DE-BA4C-405C-8F8E-AA8CCC6A89FA@mac.com> <37A80348-515C-48F4-8F88-A77679BEEA15@mac.com> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.929.2) Cc: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RFC: making gpart default X-BeenThere: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion related to FreeBSD architecture List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2008 15:26:10 -0000 On Sep 26, 2008, at 4:12 AM, Ivan Voras wrote: > Marcel Moolenaar wrote: > >>> Don't forget that we currently support creating file systems on raw >>> disk devices. eg: /dev/ad1. You are currently allowed to swapon >>> /dev/ad2. There are a lot of those out there, you can't break it >>> because people know where you work and will come find you. :) >> >> When there's no partitioning scheme on the disk, >> gpart will not be involved and the checks won't >> happen. > > Will there be "generic" parition types by default? (i.e. the "don't > care > what's on it, let me do my newfs" type) There's currently no such partition type and you don't need it to do a newfs. You can always do a newfs, irrespective of partition type. -- Marcel Moolenaar xcllnt@mac.com