From owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 24 19:38:52 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CCE7E1065672; Wed, 24 Sep 2008 19:38:52 +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 B1D698FC17; Wed, 24 Sep 2008 19:38:52 +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 krussell-lt1.jnpr.net (natint3.juniper.net [66.129.224.36]) by asmtp022.mac.com (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 6.3-7.03 (built Aug 7 2008; 32bit)) with ESMTPSA id <0K7P00B1ST8R8510@asmtp022.mac.com>; Wed, 24 Sep 2008 12:38:52 -0700 (PDT) Message-id: <8BB33576-5388-457A-9E5C-83442145EF7C@mac.com> From: Marcel Moolenaar To: Dmitry Morozovsky In-reply-to: Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2008 12:38:50 -0700 References: <20080921140932.adf51b5e.stas@FreeBSD.org> <10719B6B-1F3B-44C6-BAC0-D8C3F42F7F3F@mac.com> <10218E29-D89D-40BB-BACF-9DFB131974E7@mac.com> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.929.2) Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org, marcel@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gpt in-place editing X-BeenThere: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Filesystems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2008 19:38:52 -0000 On Sep 24, 2008, at 12:25 PM, Dmitry Morozovsky wrote: > I made a retest tonight, and found that gpart is actually doing > things quite > right (my fault in previous experiment seems to be that I did not > check for > filt system types, and gpart does not understand short types like > 'ufs'). gpart uses "freebsd-ufs" instead of "ufs", because there are incompatible UFS implementations. In particular, if you create a UFS file system on Mac OS X, FreeBSD will panic when you try to mount it. As such, I found it prudent to have more precise partition types so that you can have a "freebsd-ufs" partition alongside a "macosx-ufs" partition (the latter I just pulled out of the hat -- we don't actually support that type). > Also, gpart does not allow default values in add phase, which is a bit > annoying, especially when you create last partition; but we can live > with this > I hope ;) True. This is just a matter of enhancing the UI though and should not be difficult to do... FYI, -- Marcel Moolenaar xcllnt@mac.com