svn commit: r292058 - head/sbin/geom/class/part

Andrey V. Elsukov ae at FreeBSD.org
Thu Dec 10 10:37:14 UTC 2015


Author: ae
Date: Thu Dec 10 10:37:12 2015
New Revision: 292058
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/292058

Log:
  Remove a note about damaged PMBR. Now GPT will be detected automatically
  with such corruption.
  
  MFC after:	1 month

Modified:
  head/sbin/geom/class/part/gpart.8

Modified: head/sbin/geom/class/part/gpart.8
==============================================================================
--- head/sbin/geom/class/part/gpart.8	Thu Dec 10 10:35:07 2015	(r292057)
+++ head/sbin/geom/class/part/gpart.8	Thu Dec 10 10:37:12 2015	(r292058)
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
 .\"
 .\" $FreeBSD$
 .\"
-.Dd July 14, 2015
+.Dd December 10, 2015
 .Dt GPART 8
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
@@ -1107,15 +1107,6 @@ and
 .Cm recover
 are the only operations allowed on corrupt tables.
 .Pp
-If the first sector of a provider is corrupt, the kernel can not detect GPT
-even if the partition table itself is not corrupt.
-The protective MBR can be rewritten using the
-.Xr dd 1
-command, to restore the ability to detect the GPT.
-The copy of the protective MBR is usually located in the
-.Pa /boot/pmbr
-file.
-.Pp
 If one GPT header appears to be corrupt but the other copy remains intact,
 the kernel will log the following:
 .Bd -literal -offset indent
@@ -1330,7 +1321,6 @@ and
 /sbin/gpart backup ada0 | /sbin/gpart restore -F ada1 ada2
 .Ed
 .Sh SEE ALSO
-.Xr dd 1 ,
 .Xr geom 4 ,
 .Xr boot0cfg 8 ,
 .Xr geom 8 ,


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