On 06.12.2010 3:11, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: >> GEOM_PART (gpart) is a new GEOM partition class (slicer) and >> utility that rolls up support for many partitioning formats >> (MBR, BSD, GPT etc.) into a single code base. >> ... >> NOTE: Some old utilities like bsdlabel may not work if the kernel >> doesn't include GEOM_BSD and other old slicer classes. In other >> words, bsdlabel et al don't work with GEOM_PART. > > Does this mean that, in 8.1-RELEASE, bsdlabel/disklabel will not work > with the GENERIC kernel (which includes GEOM_PART_GPT and GEOM_LABEL, > but no other GEOM_ pieces AFAICT)?
No, It doesn't. You can create partitions with fdisk/bsdlabel. They do write directly to device and this does initiate tasting. And GPART detects created partitions. -- WBR, Andrey V. Elsukov _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"