"deep" gpart backup?

[Marcel Moolenaar]

On Jan 13, 2014, at 7:36 PM, Mark Felder <feld at FreeBSD.org> wrote:

> 
> On Jan 13, 2014, at 21:34, Marcel Moolenaar <marcel at xcllnt.net> wrote:
> 
>> Uh, ok. No alias know. Raw value it is...
>> 
>> 	ns1% sudo gpart add -t \!0xa9 -s 1023 md0
>> 	md0s1 added
>> 	ns1% gpart show md0
>> 	=>   1  2047  md0  MBR  (1.0M)
>> 	     1  1023    1  !169  (512K)
>> 	  1024  1024       - free -  (512K)
> 
> Yay! Can you slip that into the man page? That would be great :-)

Ok, I need your help. The manpage does mention it, so it's
probably not too clear. This is what the manpage says:

	:

PARTITION TYPES
     Partition types are identified on disk by particular strings or magic
     values.  The gpart utility uses symbolic names for common partition types
     so the user does not need to know these values or other details of the
     partitioning scheme in question.  The gpart utility also allows the user
     to specify scheme-specific partition types for partition types that do
     not have symbolic names.  Symbolic names currently understood are:

	:

     freebsd          A FreeBSD partition subdivided into filesystems with a
                      BSD disklabel.  This is a legacy partition type and
                      should not be used for the APM or GPT schemes.  The
                      scheme-specific types are "!165" for MBR, "!FreeBSD" for
                      APM, and "!516e7cb4-6ecf-11d6-8ff8-00022d09712b" for
                      GPT.

	:


Does it help if we add an example?

-- 
Marcel Moolenaar
marcel at xcllnt.net


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