Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 20:42:51 -0800 From: Marcel Moolenaar <xcllnt@mac.com> To: Andriy Gapon <avg@icyb.net.ua> Cc: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Subject: Re: "unused" partition: disklabel vs. gpart Message-ID: <BA00E067-34D7-45A0-8882-B0FFB8AC7340@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <4919879E.5080900@icyb.net.ua> References: <4919879E.5080900@icyb.net.ua>
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[sorry for the delay] On Nov 11, 2008, at 5:24 AM, Andriy Gapon wrote: > E.g. I had a label with a single partition 'd' with type unused. I > actually put ZFS pool into this partition, but marked it 'unused', so > that some smart scripts on certain live cds do not try to mount or > swappon the partitions. This worked OK with geom_bsd, but > geom_part_bsd > considered the slice entirely empty, it didn't find the 'd' > partition in it. Hmmm... Let me think about this one. While I don't like the ambiguity, if historically you could have partitions of type FS_UNUSED (other than 'c') then GPart should allow that too... -- Marcel Moolenaar xcllnt@mac.com
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