On Oct 20, 2009, at 10:17 PM, Aristedes Maniatis wrote: > > * is this the future for FreeBSD and we should use gpart from here > on? Are the old tools deprecated? Yes. > * we tried to reinstall the machine with some 7.2 CDs but the > gparted disks caused fdisk to crash. Is this expected? No, but that's because I don't know how buggy fdisk is. > * is the result of using gpart completely different to the bsdlabel/ > fdisk we've known? Are the partitions on disk quite different? The on-disk layout is dictated and cannot be different. As such, they are the same. > * is there some source of good documentation out there other than > the man page for gpart? man gpart. > > * has the MBR changed now with gpart? No. -- Marcel Moolenaar xcllnt_at_mac.comReceived on Wed Oct 21 2009 - 15:54:48 UTC
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