Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2009 11:48:33 +1100 From: Aristedes Maniatis <ari@ish.com.au> To: Marcel Moolenaar <xcllnt@mac.com>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gpart, bsdlabel and fdisk Message-ID: <4ADFABE1.2080001@ish.com.au> In-Reply-To: <5208B24B-0ED9-493F-81E4-04BF33FA9062@mac.com> References: <4ADE995A.8080009@ish.com.au> <5208B24B-0ED9-493F-81E4-04BF33FA9062@mac.com>
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On 22/10/09 4:54 AM, Marcel Moolenaar wrote: >> * is this the future for FreeBSD and we should use gpart from here >> on? Are the old tools deprecated? > > Yes. But the 8.0 sysinstall still uses fdisk and bsdlabel? >> * is the result of using gpart completely different to the >> bsdlabel/fdisk we've known? Are the partitions on disk quite different? > > The on-disk layout is dictated and cannot be different. As such, > they are the same. But some things look different. For example, old style labels were always of the style ad4s1b. But now the labels appear to be more flexible. Should we be using old style labels for compatibility with old tools, or does everything work with the new labelling options? >> * is there some source of good documentation out there other than >> the man page for gpart? > > man gpart. Hmmm... I was hoping for something more useful than that response. Where is it documented that I have to do "echo 'a 1' | fdisk -f - /dev/ad4" to make a disk bootable? Is there a work-in-progress handbook page somewhere that describes the overall process of setting up disks with the new tools? Ari Maniatis -- --------------------------> ish http://www.ish.com.au Level 1, 30 Wilson Street Newtown 2042 Australia phone +61 2 9550 5001 fax +61 2 9550 4001 GPG fingerprint CBFB 84B4 738D 4E87 5E5C 5EFA EF6A 7D2E 3E49 102A
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