Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Fri, 26 Sep 2008 07:25:47 -0700
From:      Marcel Moolenaar <xcllnt@mac.com>
To:        Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: RFC: making gpart default
Message-ID:  <3B2BD6FE-85D4-49F8-81A0-B2AB048ACFE8@mac.com>
In-Reply-To: <gbig3j$g6t$1@ger.gmane.org>
References:  <1896.1222371977@critter.freebsd.dk> <901FB1DE-BA4C-405C-8F8E-AA8CCC6A89FA@mac.com> <e7db6d980809251445x233bb8f4w95591c8f1eacb47@mail.gmail.com> <37A80348-515C-48F4-8F88-A77679BEEA15@mac.com> <gbig3j$g6t$1@ger.gmane.org>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help

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






Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?3B2BD6FE-85D4-49F8-81A0-B2AB048ACFE8>