Hi, On Sun, 13 Jan 2013 01:36:21 -0500 kpn...@pobox.com wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 08:09:00AM +0700, Erich Dollansky wrote: > > For what is glabel then still good? > > It is still useful for partition schemes that don't have labels (eg, > MBR) AND the filesystem used doesn't support labels itself AND the > end of the partition does not get touched by the filesystem. > > Note that UFS in FreeBSD does support labels. I believe it is the '-L' > option to newfs. ZFS does not in this sense, and ZFS touches the end > of the partition. > > That's a long list of conditions. So, really, glabel should typically > be avoided. > thanks for the explaination. I am not able to use the labels outside gpart but if they work for me - as it currently looks like - I will stick with them. I will later report in more detail when I have finished my scripts. Erich _______________________________________________ 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"
