How to safely remove rest of GTP?

[Andrey V. Elsukov]

On 30.01.2017 18:55, Warren Block wrote:
>>> GEOM: da6: the primary GPT table is corrupt or invalid.
>>> GEOM: da6: using the secondary instead -- recovery strongly advised.
>>> GEOM: da22: the primary GPT table is corrupt or invalid.
>>> GEOM: da22: using the secondary instead -- recovery strongly advised.
>>> GEOM: da6: the primary GPT table is corrupt or invalid.
>>> GEOM: da6: using the secondary instead -- recovery strongly advised.
>>> GEOM: da22: the primary GPT table is corrupt or invalid.
>>> GEOM: da22: using the secondary instead -- recovery strongly advised.
>>
>> You may try attached patch, I did only basic tests, so first try
>> somewhere :)
>
> I really like the idea of gpart being able to remove the secondary GPT,
> but combining it with the existing destroy command is ambiguous.  It's
> hard for the user to tell what will happen, and the command itself
> implies that it will destroy all partitioning.

I don't see any ambiguity here. A user sees corrupted GPT, it can only 
destroy or recover it. It is impossible to have a corrupted GPT and some 
other type of partition table in the same time. So, if you use 'gpart 
destroy' - you want to explicitly destroy it.

-- 
WBR, Andrey V. Elsukov