On Nov 18, 2010, at 12:44 PM, Greg Rivers wrote:

> 
> But bsdlabel's behavior is consistent with fdisk(8) too (-p, -f), and also 
> with Solaris' prtvtoc(1M) and fmthard(1M).  Historically, it's pretty much 
> expected that partition managers work that way or at least have that feature.

It's a nice feature, but it isn't always possible or easy
to implement with the right semantics. 

> Maybe "gpart show" shouldn't be overloaded, but having something like "gpart 
> backup" and "gpart restore" working on a format that's easily readable and 
> editable by a person would be a real feature.

I agree.

-- 
Marcel Moolenaar
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