RFC: making gpart default

Dag-Erling Smørgrav des at des.no
Mon Dec 1 03:59:52 PST 2008


"Peter Wemm" <peter at wemm.org> writes:
> After continuing the guessing game:
>
> overcee# gpart create -s gpt /dev/twed1
> gpart: 22 provider '/dev/twed1'
>
> That was useful.  Out other tools generally allow /dev prefixes to be optional.

In this case, twed1 is the name of a GEOM provider, not a device.  I'm
not sure all GEOM providers necessarily have device nodes - at least,
the GEOM framework doesn't enforce it - and for those that do, the
device name might not match the GEOM name.

DES
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