RFC: making gpart default

[Marcel Moolenaar]

On Sep 26, 2008, at 4:12 AM, Ivan Voras wrote:

> Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
>
>>> Don't forget that we currently support creating file systems on raw
>>> disk devices.  eg: /dev/ad1.  You are currently allowed to swapon
>>> /dev/ad2.  There are a lot of those out there, you can't break it
>>> because people know where you work and will come find you. :)
>>
>> When there's no partitioning scheme on the disk,
>> gpart will not be involved and the checks won't
>> happen.
>
> Will there be "generic" parition types by default? (i.e. the "don't  
> care
> what's on it, let me do my newfs" type)

There's currently no such partition type and
you don't need it to do a newfs. You can
always do a newfs, irrespective of partition
type.

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Marcel Moolenaar
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