gpart on macbook air

Andrey V. Elsukov ae at FreeBSD.org
Sun Sep 30 17:43:57 UTC 2012


On 30.09.2012 20:37, Raoul MEGELAS wrote:
> i installed CURRENT on a macbook air
> (internal ssd as you know):
> i noticed the following:
> 
> 1. on freebsd, deleting a partition with gpart: say
> gpart delete -i 4 ada0
> dammage the osx boot.
> of cours, booting with a backup disk and repairing the disk
> make it functional again.
> any light woukd be appreciated on this topic.

Hi,

When you are deleting a partition, the kernel completely overwrites  the
partition table and PMBR area. You can compare first 34 blocks before
deletion and after to see what is going on.

-- 
WBR, Andrey V. Elsukov


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