On Thu, 18 Nov 2010, Andrey V. Elsukov wrote:
Hi, Marcel and All.
I'm thinking about such feature like ability to dump partition table
into file from which it can be recovered in the future. Also it can be
used to copy partition table to another device.
At the moment i think that just print out a list of commands that should
be done to create the same table it is the easiest way.
For example:
gpart show ada1
=> 34 320172989 ada1 GPT (153G)
34 512 1 freebsd-boot (256K)
546 8388608 2 freebsd-swap (4.0G)
8389154 311783869 3 freebsd-zfs (149G)
gpart dump -f x ada1
geom part create -s gpt -f x ada1
geom part add -b 34 -s 512 -i 1 -t freebsd-boot -f x ada1
geom part add -b 546 -s 8388608 -i 2 -t freebsd-swap -f x ada1
geom part add -b 8389154 -s 311783869 -i 3 -t freebsd-zfs -f x ada1
Any comments and ideas are welcome.
I think this is a great idea. But why not make gpart eat it's own dog
food like bsdlabel(8) does?
The output of bsdlabel is a simple text file that's easy for humans to
read and edit. bsdlabel takes this very same output as input (-R).
bsdlabel also supports wildcards on input, so it will compute
starts/offsets for you. And bsdlabel makes it easy to change an existing
label by opening the editor on it (-e).
So instead of a special dump command or complicated XML formatting, just
make "gpart show" output suitable for input (it's probably already close),
and add the verb to read that input ("gpart read" or "gpart apply" or
such). Add the ability to handle wildcards and run the editor, and gpart
could be as friendly to use as bsdlabel is.
--
Greg
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