This partitioning scheme is used in DragonFlyBSD. It is similar to
BSD disklabel, but has the following improvements:
* metadata has own dedicated place and isn't accessible through partitions;
* all offsets are 64-bit;
* supports 16 partitions by default (has reserved place for more);
* has reserved place for backup label (but not yet implemented);
* has UUIDs for partitions and partition types;
No objections from: geom
MFC after: 2 weeks
Relnotes: yes
Always validate the return of find_geomcfg(). It could be NULL, for
example when the geom is withering.
Approved by: ken (mentor)
Sponsored by: Spectra Logic Corporation
MFC after: 3 weeks
in gpart(8) and boot(8), adding references to gptboot(8) in both.
Reviewed by: jhb, ae, pjd, Paul Schenkeveld <bsdcan@psconsult.nl>, david_a_bright@dell.com (portions), gjb
MFC after: 1 week
This allows setting attributes on tables. One simply does not provide
an index in that case. Otherwise the entry corresponding the index has
the attribute set or unset.
Use this change to fix a relatively longstanding bug in our GPT scheme
that's the result of rev 198097 (relatively harmless) followed by rev
237057 (damaging). The damaging part being that our GPT scheme always
has the active flag set on the PMBR slice. This is in violation with
EFI. Existing EFI implementions for both x86 and ia64 reject the GPT.
As such, GPT disks created by us aren't usable under EFI because of
that.
After this change, GPT disks never have the active flag set on the PMBR
slice. In order to make the GPT disk bootable under some x86 BIOSes,
the reason of rev 198097, one must now set the active attribute on the
gpt table. The kernel will apply this to the PMBR slice For (S)ATA:
gpart set -a active ada0
To fix an existing GPT disk that has the active flag set in the PMBR,
and that does not need the flag, use (again for (S)ATA):
gpart unset -a active ada0
The EBR, MBR & PC98 schemes, which also impement at least 1 attribute,
now check to make sure the entry passed is valid. They do not have
attributes that apply to the table.
provided by Bas Smeelen <b.smeelen@ose.nl>. Use of 'gpart list'
suggested by by Andrey V. Elsukov <ae@FreeBSD.org>.
PR: docs/174270
Submitted by: Ronald F.Guilmette <rfg@tristatelogic.com>
Reviewed by: ae (block sizes)
MFC after: 1 week
reduce the size of the partition in the example from 128 blocks to 94
blocks so it will end on a 128-block boundary. Also remove the -b
option from the next example.
MFC after: 3 weeks
existing sections to refer to the new one. Rearrange partitioning scheme
list so MBR and EBR types are together. Also add several corrections for
grammar, clarity, and consistency.
Approved by: gjb (mentor)
MFC after: 1 week
on a disk with non zero stripesize (e.g. disks with 4k sector size)[1].
Also do not use automatic alignment when size is exactly specified, but
an alignment is not. Use automatic alignment only for case when user
omits both "-s" and "-a" options.
Reported by: Mikael Fridh <frimik at gmail> [1]
Approved by: re (kib)
MFC after: 1 week
bootstrap code images used to boot from MBR, GPT, BSD and VTOC8
schemes.
Reviewed by: marius (previous version)
Approved by: re (kib)
MFC after: 1 week
gpart_write_partcode_vtoc8 does access out of range of allocated memory.
Check size of bootcode before writing it.
Pointed out by: ru
MFC after: 1 week
When user wants have specific alignment - do what user wants.
Use stripesize as alignment value in case, when some of gpart's
arguments are ommitted for automatic calculation.
Suggested by: mav
partition offsets. If user requests specific alignment and
provider's stripesize is not zero, then use a least common multiple
from the stripesize and user specified value.
Also fix "gpart resize" implementation: do not try to align the partition
size, because the start offset may be not aligned. Instead align the
end offset and then calculate size. Also use stripesize and stripeoffset
for "gpart resize" command.
with geometry. And they do recalculation of user specified parameters.
MBR, PC98, VTOC8, EBR schemes are doing that. For these schemes an
auto alignment feature (ie. gpart add -a alignment) would not work.
But it can work for GPT and BSD schemes. BSD scheme usualy is created
inside MBR, so we can use knowledge about offset of MBR partition to
calculate aligned values for BSD partitions.
Use "offset" attribute of the parent provider for better alignment.
MFC after: 2 weeks
partitions instead of partition's indexes. This may be useful with
GPT partitioning scheme or EBR without GEOM_PART_EBR_COMPAT option.
MFC after: 2 weeks
