RFC: making gpart default

[Marcel Moolenaar]

On Sep 26, 2008, at 2:57 PM, Michel Talon wrote:

> Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
>> That's why I believe we need to attach real meaning
>> to the partition type. We should disallow a newfs_ufs
>> on a partition that is not of type freebsd-ufs. We
>> should disallow swapon for a partition that is not
>> of type freebsd-swap. etc..
>
> However at present it is very convenient that one can share the swap
> partitions with Linux on a dual boot machine (at the price of running
> mkswap in the Linux boot scripts).

This is already implemented.

> After all you should be able
> to do whatever you like with a chunk of your hard disk, for example
> cyclic buffers for inn, database space for databases working on
> raw disk, etc. space for ZFS which doesn't care about partition type
> (i have a ZFS partition which is marked of type Linux fs) and  
> obviously
> swap.

You can still do whatever you want with a partition.

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Marcel Moolenaar
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