"unused" partition: disklabel vs. gpart

[Marcel Moolenaar]

[sorry for the delay]

On Nov 11, 2008, at 5:24 AM, Andriy Gapon wrote:

> E.g. I had a label with a single partition 'd' with type unused. I
> actually put ZFS pool into this partition, but marked it 'unused', so
> that some smart scripts on certain live cds do not try to mount or
> swappon the partitions. This worked OK with geom_bsd, but  
> geom_part_bsd
> considered the slice entirely empty, it didn't find the 'd'  
> partition in it.

Hmmm... Let me think about this one. While I don't
like the ambiguity, if historically you could have
partitions of type FS_UNUSED (other than 'c') then
GPart should allow that too...

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Marcel Moolenaar
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