Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2015 21:01:05 +0100 From: Steve Burton <steve@sliderule.demon.co.uk> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Base gpart vs. sysutils/gpart Message-ID: <55C11A01.9020500@sliderule.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <2888520.RJjyyPeuUg@desk8.phess.net> References: <55BF6AA0.2030802@bananmonarki.se> <alpine.BSF.2.20.1508041120560.88223@wonkity.com> <55C1079F.5030608@sneakertech.com> <2888520.RJjyyPeuUg@desk8.phess.net>
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On 04/08/2015 20:32, Patrick Hess wrote: > Quartz wrote: >>> Okay. Can you point me to a man page or utility distribution >>> with that version of gpart for Linux? >> Gparted Live: >> gpart v0.2.1 (c) 1999-2001 Michail Brzitwa <michail@brzitwa.de> > So I guess we're talking about this tool then (quoting from http://www.freshports.org/sysutils/gpart): > > A port of a tool which tries to guess the primary partition > table of a PC-type hard disk [...] > > WWW: http://brzitwa.de/mb/gpart/index.html (outdated) > > That's completely different from what FreeBSD's own gpart does. > Just because two tools happen to share the same name doesn't > necessarily mean that they'll also do the same thing. > > Patrick > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > As a case in point, typing 'killall httpd' on a FreeBSD or Linux box doesn't give the same result as typing it on a Solaris box, as I found out all by myself ... Steve.
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