On Mon, 17 Sep 2012, Tom Evans wrote:
On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 8:12 PM, Jeff Anton <an...@hesiod.org> wrote:
… my point is that all this information needs to be
together in one human and machine readable form. We need to be able to look
at the whole picture of a device and say "that makes sense" then do it. And
this shouldn't be from some GUI junk either.
In a file, this information can be kept as a reference, as a confirmation
that partitioning hasn't changed unexpectedly, and
modified if needed in a clear manner.
(Sorry to pick at just parts of your email…)
The current GEOM configuration is available from a sysctl in machine
readable format - check out kern.geom.confxml. If you are concerned
about your partitions changing underneath you, storing and then
comparing output from this sysctl gives you a simple way to determine
what.
A human readable version can be obtained from the gpart tool.
IMHO, gpart and GEOM are fantastic. gpart is a much simpler tool to
use than fdisk, and fully understands every kind of disk partitioning
you can throw at it, whilst fdisk is only a tool for playing with MBR.
The gpart man page explains clearly and concisely how to use it.
GEOM provides a clear framework that anything can plug in to, from
labels to whole disk encryption.
It is not simple. All I want is Solaris format utility (partition
and label).
--
DE
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