On Mon, 22 Aug 2011, Andrey V. Elsukov wrote: > On 22.08.2011 4:00, Nathan Whitehorn wrote: >> The larger problem is that this behavior means that destroying gparts sometimes doesn't work at >> all. For instance, if you have nested partitioning like MBR+BSD (or EBR) it is not possible to >> destroy the underlying MBR geom without committing the destruction of the BSD geom. This is >> because the MBR geom cannot be destroyed, even without committing, while it continues to have >> children, which it does due to the ghost geom for the BSD slice. > > Actually you can destroy underlying MBR geom without committing, just use "force" flag. > But there is another problem, the metadata of nested scheme will not deleted and it might > appear again when you create new MBR and new partition in the same place. This isn't true for nested partitioning, at least in my experience. -Nathan > -- > WBR, Andrey V. Elsukov > >Received on Mon Aug 22 2011 - 11:13:58 UTC
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