Is it possible to run gpart and newfs on file without root access (without mdconfig)?

Adrian Chadd adrian at freebsd.org
Wed Jan 23 17:31:38 UTC 2013


On 21 January 2013 06:08, Andriy Gapon <avg at freebsd.org> wrote:

> I would be more happy to have gpart-in-userland :-)

Well, we need geom-in-userland. That would let us do arbitrary
manipulation of partition tables in files and disk images as needed.

It'd also allow for some very cool regression testing.



Adrian


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