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

[Mark Felder]

On Jun 12, 2014, at 2:04, Andrey V. Elsukov <ae at FreeBSD.org> wrote:

> On 11.06.2014 17:48, Dmitry Morozovsky wrote:
>> On Wed, 11 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 use freebsd as a desktop and I regularly plug in a device and attempt to initialize or read disks meant for many different systems. The more aliases included the better.