gpart: Stop documenting freebsd-vinum partition types

Support for the partition types is still retained so that tools can
display existing partitions.

Reviewed by: imp, emaste
Differential Revision

gpart: Stop documenting freebsd-vinum partition types

Support for the partition types is still retained so that tools can
display existing partitions.

Reviewed by: imp, emaste
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D48535

show more ...

gpart: Add u-boot-env alias for U-Boot's environment GPT partition UUID

This is a platform-independent UUID, and this is the name U-Boot uses.

MFC after: 1 week

Remove $FreeBSD$: two-line nroff pattern

Remove /^\.\\"\n\.\\"\s*\$FreeBSD\$$\n/

base: Remove support for the VTOC8 partitioning scheme

The removal of the sparc64 support in February 2020 obsoleted the
VTOC8 partitioning scheme as no other FreeBSD platform makes use
of it. Moreo

base: Remove support for the VTOC8 partitioning scheme

The removal of the sparc64 support in February 2020 obsoleted the
VTOC8 partitioning scheme as no other FreeBSD platform makes use
of it. Moreover, the code is bitrotting as nothing defines e. g.
LOADER_VTOC8_SUPPORT any more and, thus, should go now, too. With
this change, the following commits are reverted as far as VTOC8
is concerned and parts haven't already previously been deleted
along with prior sparc64 removals:
094fcb157d4c98211899cf09d06e2cf19149b7e0
a7d366e9589c95feda6f3bc78c59c6355d51f126
ba8d50d08b9df4e8213f9a6997ff6792ecebcd9b

The alignment example d9711c28efc4ec89ba5ea11f8fd63e9d0a7fc81b
added to the VTOC8 section of gpart.8 is folded into the MBR one.

This should finally conclude the deorbit of sparc64-specific bits.

We had joy, we had fun
we ran Unix on a Sun.
But that source and the song
of FreeBSD have all gone.

Credits to Michael Bueker for the original "Unix on a Sun" and Rod
McKuen for the "Seasons in the Sun" lyrics.

show more ...

gpart(8): slices are out of context for GPT

Correct the GPT example. Creation of a partition leaves free the rest
of the device (not the slice).

Approved-by: imp
Fixes: ae1b731b5df0 Rewrite

gpart(8): slices are out of context for GPT

Correct the GPT example. Creation of a partition leaves free the rest
of the device (not the slice).

Approved-by: imp
Fixes: ae1b731b5df0 Rewrite the GPT and MBR examples. For GPT, ensure that the boot partition is large enough for gptzfsboot, which has doubled in size since 10.
MFC after: 1 week
Pull-request: https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/pull/795

show more ...

gpart(8): Improve manual page syntax

Fix various warnings from `mandoc -Tlint lib/geom/part/gpart.8`.

Reviewed by: imp
Pull Request: https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/pull/702

gpart(8): Refer to a related manual page

Reviewed by: imp
Pull Request: https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/pull/702

Fix dead reference to boot0(8) to point to boot0cfg(8).

geom: Add HiFive boot partitions

As documented in the HiFive Unmatched Software Reference Manual.

Reviewed by: imp, mhorne
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential Revision: https://review

geom: Add HiFive boot partitions

As documented in the HiFive Unmatched Software Reference Manual.

Reviewed by: imp, mhorne
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D34010

show more ...

gpart.8: minor tidying

Reported by: igor(1)

gpart(8): add minimal reference to glabel(8) to manual page

MFC after: 1 week

Minor grammar nit

PR: docs/253975

MFH

Sponsored by: Rubicon Communications, LLC (netgate.com)

gpart(8): Recognize apple-zfs and solaris-reserved partition ids

Introduce G_PART_ALIAS_SOLARIS_RESERVED, GPT_ENT_TYPE_SOLARIS_RESERVED et al.,
to make gpart show output more convenient on systems w

gpart(8): Recognize apple-zfs and solaris-reserved partition ids

Introduce G_PART_ALIAS_SOLARIS_RESERVED, GPT_ENT_TYPE_SOLARIS_RESERVED et al.,
to make gpart show output more convenient on systems with illumos/openindiana
disks visible.

Submitted by: Juraj Lutter <otis AT sk.FreeBSD.org>
Reviewed by: bcr(manpages), delphij, myself
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D26012

show more ...

Revert r362466

Such change should not have happen without prior discussion and review.

With hat: transitioning core

Improve wording to be more precise and clear.
No functional change intended.

s/Master Boot/Main Boot/ (also called MBR)

MFC after: 1 week
Sponsored by: Mellanox Technologies

Merge ^/head r357179 through r357269.

Add some missing articles.
Use .Nm to format the utility name.
Get the name of the GEOM class right.

MFC after: 2 weeks

gpart(8): ms-basic-data is used for exFAT on GPT

Be explicit about it; the first mention of exFAT is for the MBR type 'ntfs',
and the reader must work back from there to the GPT type and infer that

gpart(8): ms-basic-data is used for exFAT on GPT

Be explicit about it; the first mention of exFAT is for the MBR type 'ntfs',
and the reader must work back from there to the GPT type and infer that a
reference to MBR ntfs type means ms-basic-data is canonical for exFAT.

(It'd also be great if gpart had convenient aliases that did the right
thing for the partition scheme, such as 'ntfs' => ms-basic-data on GPT
schemes or 'exfat' => 'ntfs' in MBR schemes. The tool is also bad about
providing user-meaningful reasons for EINVAL failures.)

show more ...

Add kern.geom.part.separator tunable. This makes it possible
to specify an optional separator to insert before partition name;
eg if it's set to "c/", you'll get "ada0c/s1" instead of "ada0s1".
(It

Add kern.geom.part.separator tunable. This makes it possible
to specify an optional separator to insert before partition name;
eg if it's set to "c/", you'll get "ada0c/s1" instead of "ada0s1".
(It cannot be set to just “/“, since ada0 is a device node, not
a directory.)

Reviewed by: imp
MFC after: 2 weeks
Sponsored by: Klara Inc.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D22193

show more ...

Fix grammar in gpart.8.

PR: 241973
MFC after: 3 days

Merge ^/head r351732 through r352104.

Allow more nesting of GEOM partitioning schemes

GEOM is supposed to be topology-agnostic, but the GPT and BSD partition code
has arbitrary restrictions on nesting that are annoying in cases such as

Allow more nesting of GEOM partitioning schemes

GEOM is supposed to be topology-agnostic, but the GPT and BSD partition code
has arbitrary restrictions on nesting that are annoying in cases such as
running VMs on raw partitions (since the VM's partitioning scheme is not
visible to the host).

This patch adds sysctls to disable the restrictions except in the case of
BSD label (and similar) partitions with offset 0 (where we need to avoid
recursively recognizing the label).

Submitted by: Andrew Gierth
MFC after: 1 week
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D21350

show more ...

Merge ^/head r340918 through r341763.

Add a “skip_dsn” option to g_part's bootcode verb to prevent g_part_mbr
from setting the volume serial number. This unbreaks older boot blocks
that don't support serial numbers, and allows boot0cfg

Add a “skip_dsn” option to g_part's bootcode verb to prevent g_part_mbr
from setting the volume serial number. This unbreaks older boot blocks
that don't support serial numbers, and allows boot0cfg to set the serial
number itself if requested by the user.

Submitted by: lev@, yuripv@
MFC after: 1 week
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D17386

show more ...