How to safely remove rest of GTP?

Warren Block wblock at wonkity.com
Tue Jan 31 00:32:52 UTC 2017


On Mon, 30 Jan 2017, Ian Lepore wrote:

> On Tue, 2017-01-31 at 00:33 +0300, Andrey V. Elsukov wrote:
>> On 30.01.2017 20:23, Ian Lepore wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> other type of partition table in the same time. So, if you use
>>>> 'gpart
>>>> destroy' - you want to explicitly destroy it.
>>>>
>>> The question to ask here is why are you the only one who can't see
>>> or
>>> understand that a user is NOT going to use a "destroy" command on a
>>>  disk containing live data?  Especially given the confusing
>>> vagueness
>>> of the gpart docs.
>> Because I have read the docs and understood them? Did you tried do
>> that 
>> instead of attacking me each time, when geom/gpart is discussed? I'm 
>> even not an author  of this. If you don't like the existing 
>> documentation, the sources are open, read them and write better 
>> documentation.
>>
>
> Every time someone says they can't understand how to do something with
> gpart, you imply that the problem is all theirs, because the
> documentation is clear.  The documentation is NOT clear, and every time
> you say so, I'm going to point out it is not.

I am interested in improving gpart documentation, if you have specific 
suggestions.

Beyond that, these responses seem unnecessarily harsh and personal.


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