gpart and bsdlabel

[Warren Block]

On Fri, 11 Jul 2014, Michael W. Lucas wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm gradually switching from the familiar and comfortable agony of
> fdisk/disklabel to gpart.
>
> In the past, our org has avoided certain partition letters on specific
> drives. If the drive isn't a boot drive, it has no 'a" partition. If
> it has no swap, it has no 'b' partition.
>
> gpart assigns partition letters in the order in which they're created.
>
> Is there a way to specify which partition letter you want to create,
> or start with, or something?

Interesting question.  I always figured the letters were dynamic.  If 
they are static, maybe -l could be used to assign them to BSD 
partitions.