gpt in-place editing

Marcel Moolenaar xcllnt at mac.com
Wed Sep 24 19:38:52 UTC 2008


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 at mac.com





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