John Nemeth writes:
> } With disklabels, when the label is scanned then the various abcdefgh
> } partitions can be used. Ideally, when writing the block with the
> } disklabel it would be rescanned.
>
> What do you mean by "rescanned"? Normally with disklabels
> there are no wedges,
John Nemeth writes:
> As stated before, gpt(8) is a tool for manipulating on-disk
> data structures. This is outside the scope of it. Also, disklabel(8)
> lets you do anything you want to a disklabel regardless of whether
> the partitons are mounted. Why would you expect gpt(8) to behave
"J. Lewis Muir" writes:
>> I have used etcmanage in the past, and indeed it does do everything I
>> want! However, I went looking for the website for it and couldn't find
>> it. The Makefile HOMEPAGE variable is set to
>>
>> http://www.ir.bbn.com/~gdt/etcmanage/
>>
>> but it's commented
On Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 08:42:49AM -0800, John Nemeth wrote:
>
> I recently changed gpt(8) to not run dkctl when it isn't
> needed. Ideally one would not be destroying a GPT that contains
> active wedges.
Active (== in use) wedges cannot be destroy. So destroying the GPT
should updated the
On Feb 13, 11:56am, Michael van Elst wrote:
} g...@lexort.com (Greg Troxel) writes:
}
} > And when destroying a GPT label, it should
} >first remove each partition, and thus remove each wedge.
}
} Looks like gpt isn't running dkctl after destroying the GPT,
} probably neither after creation or
the man page for gpt on NetBSD 8.0_STABLE in the example section shows:
Booting from GPT on an BIOS system. This creates a bootable partition
that can be manually installed to. Note that sysinst(8) does not yet
properly support this setup.
xotica# gpt create wd1
On Tue 12 Feb 2019 at 22:25:34 -0800, John Nemeth wrote:
> On Feb 12, 7:03pm, Robert Nestor wrote:
> }
> } Somewhat related, but the man page on GPT in the example on how
> } to set up a BIOS boot indicates that one should newfs dk?, not
> } rdk?. A number of people have pointed out to me that I
rnes...@mac.com (Robert Nestor) writes:
>Somewhat related, but the man page on GPT in the example on how to set up a
>BIOS boot indicates that one should newfs dk?, not rdk?. A number of people
>have pointed out to me that I should be running newfs on rdk?, NOT dk?. This
>was probably the
g...@lexort.com (Greg Troxel) writes:
>I can see how we got here, but the situation seems wrong from a logical
>consistency point of view. If gpt(8) is going to create wedges on
>adding a new partition, it should delete the wedge corresponding to a
>partition that it removes.
That's what is
