> Why may it hurt ? How may it hurt ? Which sector is written to by > this 'gpart' command ? > > As far as I understand, GPT writes some stuff at the beginning and > the end of the harddisk.
Yup, this is true. > How/why will the newfs overwrite those parts ? Because you are also giving it the whole hard disc to write to, instead of a partition within the hard disc, so you will end up scribbling on what you wrote with the gpart command. -pete. _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
