On Mon, 13 Jan 2014, Marcel Moolenaar wrote:


On Jan 13, 2014, at 7:36 PM, Mark Felder <[email protected]> wrote:


On Jan 13, 2014, at 21:34, Marcel Moolenaar <[email protected]> wrote:

Uh, ok. No alias know. Raw value it is...

        ns1% sudo gpart add -t \!0xa9 -s 1023 md0
        md0s1 added
        ns1% gpart show md0
        =>   1  2047  md0  MBR  (1.0M)
             1  1023    1  !169  (512K)
          1024  1024       - free -  (512K)

Yay! Can you slip that into the man page? That would be great :-)

Ok, I need your help. The manpage does mention it, so it's
probably not too clear. This is what the manpage says:

        :

PARTITION TYPES
    Partition types are identified on disk by particular strings or magic
    values.  The gpart utility uses symbolic names for common partition types
    so the user does not need to know these values or other details of the
    partitioning scheme in question.  The gpart utility also allows the user
    to specify scheme-specific partition types for partition types that do
    not have symbolic names.  Symbolic names currently understood are:

        :

    freebsd          A FreeBSD partition subdivided into filesystems with a
                     BSD disklabel.  This is a legacy partition type and
                     should not be used for the APM or GPT schemes.  The
                     scheme-specific types are "!165" for MBR, "!FreeBSD" for
                     APM, and "!516e7cb4-6ecf-11d6-8ff8-00022d09712b" for
                     GPT.

        :


Does it help if we add an example?

Probably.  I'd suggest one with \!12 as a common need.

Since we're talking about this, maybe an option for gpart to show the aliases it knows would be useful. Or that list could be added to man page, but then it's in two places.
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