gpart, bsdlabel and fdisk

[Marcel Moolenaar]

On Oct 20, 2009, at 10:17 PM, Aristedes Maniatis wrote:
>
> * is this the future for FreeBSD and we should use gpart from here  
> on? Are the old tools deprecated?

Yes.

> * we tried to reinstall the machine with some 7.2 CDs but the  
> gparted disks caused fdisk to crash. Is this expected?

No, but that's because I don't know how buggy fdisk is.

> * is the result of using gpart completely different to the bsdlabel/ 
> fdisk we've known? Are the partitions on disk quite different?

The on-disk layout is dictated and cannot be different. As such,
they are the same.

> * is there some source of good documentation out there other than  
> the man page for gpart?

man gpart.

>
> * has the MBR changed now with gpart?

No.

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