a valid PMBR. Without this fix, if label a disk with a GPT, then relabel
it with an MBR the GPT tables are still present. If you then try to create
a GPT with 'gpt create', gpt(8) will fail to open the device because the
partitions in the stale GPT overlap with the slices in the MBR.
MFC after: 1 week
disk devices have to consist of a block of sectors. Thus, when writing
gptboot to the boot partition, round the size of the gptboot file up to a
sector boundary, pre-zero it, and write out the full buffer to disk.
on i386 and amd64 machines. The overall process is that /boot/pmbr lives
in the PMBR (similar to /boot/mbr for MBR disks) and is responsible for
locating and loading /boot/gptboot. /boot/gptboot is similar to /boot/boot
except that it groks GPT rather than MBR + bsdlabel. Unlike /boot/boot,
/boot/gptboot lives in its own dedicated GPT partition with a new
"FreeBSD boot" type. This partition does not have a fixed size in that
/boot/pmbr will load the entire partition into the lower 640k. However,
it is limited in that it can only be 545k. That's still a lot better than
the current 7.5k limit for boot2 on MBR. gptboot mostly acts just like
boot2 in that it reads /boot.config and loads up /boot/loader. Some more
details:
- Include uuid_equal() and uuid_is_nil() in libstand.
- Add a new 'boot' command to gpt(8) which makes a GPT disk bootable using
/boot/pmbr and /boot/gptboot. Note that the disk must have some free
space for the boot partition.
- This required exposing the backend of the 'add' function as a
gpt_add_part() function to the rest of gpt(8). 'boot' uses this to
create a boot partition if needed.
- Don't cripple cgbase() in the UFS boot code for /boot/gptboot so that
it can handle a filesystem > 1.5 TB.
- /boot/gptboot has a simple loader (gptldr) that doesn't do any I/O
unlike boot1 since /boot/pmbr loads all of gptboot up front. The
C portion of gptboot (gptboot.c) has been repocopied from boot2.c.
The primary changes are to parse the GPT to find a root filesystem
and to use 64-bit disk addresses. Currently gptboot assumes that the
first UFS partition on the disk is the / filesystem, but this algorithm
will likely be improved in the future.
- Teach the biosdisk driver in /boot/loader to understand GPT tables.
GPT partitions are identified as 'disk0pX:' (e.g. disk0p2:) which is
similar to the /dev names the kernel uses (e.g. /dev/ad0p2).
- Add a new "freebsd-boot" alias to g_part() for the new boot UUID.
MFC after: 1 month
Discussed with: marcel (some things might still change, but am committing
what I have so far)
partition size. On 32-bit platforms sizeof(long) < sizeof(off_t)
and using strtol(3) would prevent partitions larger than 4G
sectors or beyond 4G blocks.
PR: bin/103991
MFC after: 3 days
labeled are selected in the same way as with the remove command.
Update the manpage to have the selection options described for the
label command and referenced to it from the remove command.
The label can be specified on the command line with the -l option
or read from a file with the -f option. In both cases, the label
is assumed to be encoded in UTF-8.
PR: ia64/83124
MFC after: 1 week
o Introduce utf16_to_utf8().
o Add option -l to the show command to display the GPT label instead
of the friendly partition type.
o Add option -u to the show command to suppress the friendly output
and print th raw UUIDs instead.
command line) and the device path (what we passed to open()). Use
the former in diagnostics.
- when adding or removing partitions, print a single line to stdout for
each partition that was added or removed, indicating its name.
- add an -a option to 'gpt remove' which must be explicitly specified
to remove all partitions.
Approved by: marcel (in prinicple)
MFC after: 2 weeks
allows the user to force the creation of a GPT even when there's a
MBR on the device. The MBR is simply wiped and any partitions
described by it are lost. Without the -f option one cannot create
a GPT when there's a MBR.
and 'mediasz' is in bytes. As it so happens, we define 'last' as the
sector number of the last sector on the medium which also is the size
of the PMBR partition. Therefore, use 'last' instead of 'mediasz'.
Submitted by: Dan Markarian <markarian at apple dot com>
the MBR after it is migrated to a GPT. While this was useful during
the early days when GPT support was under development, it's something
that users can use without knowing what they're getting themselves
into. The possible harm outweights the marginal usefulness it now has.
partitions and removes any that matches the pre-conditions. The
options are the same for the add command and are used to select
the partitions to remove.
Currently the remove command without any options deletes all GPT
partitions. This is rather harmful and will need anti-footshooting
measures.
starts at 1. No index is represented by 0.
o Change the show command to display the partition number at the expense
of the partition end columm. We already display the start and size.
o Enhance the add command to accept the -i option. The -i option allows
the user to specify which partition number the new partition should
get.
o Update the manpage accordingly.
While here:
o Make the UUIDs static to avoid runtime initialization,
o Rename ext to mslinux,
o Replace the use of memcmp() with uuid_equal(),
o Various style(9) improvements,
o Order the comparisons based on importance,
o Remove the word partition from all the descriptions,
o Other description improvements.
Includes patch from: T. Muthu Mohan < Muthu_T at dell dot com >
a PMBR. Make sure the create command creates a PMBR as well
(if not already present).
o When parsing the MBR, explicitly check for a PMBR and create
a PMBR map node if one is found.
o When parsing the MBR, recurse to handle extended partitions.
This allows us to flatten nested MBRs when migrating to a
GPT.
o Have the migrate command bail out if it encounters a partition
it doesn't know how to migrate. This avoids data loss.
o Change the output of the show command so that the UUIDs of the
GPT partitions fit on the same line.
o Show when partitions are extended partitions and add the PMBR
type.
Approved by: re (blanket)
UUIDs can then be limited to those cases when an alias doesn't exist.
This greatly increases the likelyhood that a sysadmin finishes the
partitioning without intermittent mental breakdowns. Current aliases
are "efi", "swap" and "ufs".
While here, staticize global variables and expand the usage message.
Approved by: re (blanket)
<sys/gpt.h>. This avoids having to include both <sys/uuid.h> and
<uuid.h>, which is considered by your friendly committer to be
aestheticly displeasing (= ballyhoo barf barf :-)
