gpart, glabel and newfs --> what am I doing wrong

[Erich Dollansky]

Hi,

On Sun, 13 Jan 2013 01:36:21 -0500
kpneal at pobox.com wrote:

> On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 08:09:00AM +0700, Erich Dollansky wrote:
> > For what is glabel then still good?
> 
> It is still useful for partition schemes that don't have labels (eg,
> MBR) AND the filesystem used doesn't support labels itself AND the
> end of the partition does not get touched by the filesystem.
> 
> Note that UFS in FreeBSD does support labels. I believe it is the '-L'
> option to newfs. ZFS does not in this sense, and ZFS touches the end
> of the partition.
> 
> That's a long list of conditions. So, really, glabel should typically
> be avoided.
> 

thanks for the explaination. I am not able to use the labels outside
gpart but if they work for me - as it currently looks like - I will
stick with them.

I will later report in more detail when I have finished my scripts.

Erich