geom_part

[Paul B. Mahol]

On 5/4/09, Dmitry Marakasov <amdmi3 at amdmi3.ru> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I've upgraded one of my boxes to current recently and ran into some
> problems with new geom_part.
>
> First, it's impossible to edit bsd label online.
>
> # bsdlabel -e /dev/ad8
> [edit]
> bsdlabel: Class not found
> re-edit the label? [y]:
>

bsdlabel, fdisk and others no longer works correctly, use gpart(8) instead.

If you really want to still use bsdlabel and fdisk you need custom
kernel without geom_part* note that geom_bsd and geom_mbr are going to
be removed soon from CURRENT(because they are not used anymore).

> Setting sysctl kern.geom.debugflags to 16 helps.
>
> Next, it's no longer possible to use nested configuration. If I add
> bsd label to, say, /dev/ad8f, no subpartitions (ad8fa, ad8fd ...)
> will be shown. They pop up after loading geom_bsd.
>
> Finally, seems like bsd label support is broken:
>
> # bsdlabel /dev/ad8
> # /dev/ad8:
> 8 partitions:
> #        size   offset    fstype   [fsize bsize bps/cpg]
>   a:  2097152        0    4.2BSD     2048 16384 28528
>   b: 20971520  2097152      swap
>   c: 390721968        0    unused        0     0         # "raw" part, don't
> edit
>   d: 20971520 23068672    4.2BSD     2048 16384 28528
>   e:  2097152 44040192    4.2BSD     2048 16384 28528
>   f: 20971520 46137344    4.2BSD     2048 16384 28528
>   g: 41943040 67108864    unused        0     0
>   h: 281670064 109051904    unused        0     0
>
> # ls /dev/ad8*
> /dev/ad8	/dev/ad8b	/dev/ad8e	/dev/ad8g
> /dev/ad8a	/dev/ad8d	/dev/ad8f
>
> No h partition!
>
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-- 
Paul