but isn't all that pretty. It has minimal error testing and may
leak memory. It also only works with empty disks. If passed "-F"
flag, it will blank the disk for you.
- while here, squash a memory leak
It shouldn't be necessary to backup unused partitions, however
the partition GUID is created at the time the GPT is created and
is never changed. It shouldn't matter if the GUID of an unused
partition changes, but there may be some special case where it
does. Since it isn't a big deal to record the unused partitions,
might as well do it.
to create/resize an aligned one failed. This simplifies the code
and prevents surprises. If the user wants an unaligned partition
in the case where an aligned one fails, they can simply retry the
command without the "-a" option. This change was requested by
wiz@, and after some thought I agree with it.
Use less bogus CHS addresses in PMBR.
With the ending head set at 0xff one machine I have will never leave
the initial startup screen if such a disk is present. Additionally,
Wikipedia suggests without citiation that 254 is the maximium allowable
value for the head, and this seems to be the case.
- s/-b number/-b blocknr/
- s/-s count/-s sectors/
- s/-p count/-p partitions/
In the program:
- s/-b lba/-b blocknr/
- s/-s lba/-s sectors/
This makes the documentation in the manpage and the program consistent
and makes it more clear what the parameters are. Also, "-s lba" was
just plain wrong since LBA stands for Logical Block Address[ing], and
the -s option didn't represent any kind of address, but rather a size.
-a alignment -- attempt to align the start and size of the partition
-l label -- supply a label for the partition
These options were inspired by FreeBSD's gpart(8) command, but the
code was written by me.
- typo; the label command labels partitions, not remove them
- migrate -s isn't applicable to NetBSD
- add information about the space required for migration
- add a "gpt show -l" example
