svn commit: r267357 - head/sys/geom/part

[Dmitry Morozovsky]

On Thu, 12 Jun 2014, Andrey V. Elsukov wrote:

> >> Author: ae
> >> Date: Wed Jun 11 10:19:11 2014
> >> New Revision: 267357
> >> URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/267357
> >>
> >> Log:
> >>   Add aliases for DragonFlyBSD's partition types.
> > 
> > These should be documented in sbin/geom/class/part/gpart.8 also.
> 
> I don't think we should document partition types for all foreign
> systems. gpart(8) exists only in FreeBSD and it's purpose manage
> partitions in FreeBSD. We already have a lot of NetBSD's and Apple's
> aliases that aren't documented, but nobody complained about that.
> 
> In this case it is mostly cosmetic change. It allows to see aliases in
> the `gpart show` output. Having a lot of partition types documented can
> confuse users. IMHO. :)

I do not have strong opinion about it, but at least jmg@ asked me to document 
my set of VMware FSes additions ;)

-- 
Sincerely,
D.Marck                                     [DM5020, MCK-RIPE, DM3-RIPN]
[ FreeBSD committer:                                 marck at FreeBSD.org ]
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