Casper.Dik at Sun.COM wrote: >> Casper.Dik at Sun.COM writes: >> >>> Specify disk (enter its number): 0 >>> selecting c1t0d0 >>> [disk formatted] >>> Warning: Current Disk has mounted partitions. >>> /dev/dsk/c1t0d0s0 is currently mounted on /a. Please see umount(1M). >>> /dev/dsk/c1t0d0s1 is currently used by swap. Please see swap(1M). >>> /dev/dsk/c1t0d0s7 is part of active ZFS pool export. Please see zpool(1M). >>> >>> Now I think gparted is aimed at "single disk systems" but do we need >>> to give a warning if we change the disk with gparted? >>> >> I thought that 'parted' was for real partitions, not Solaris slices. >> Does libdiskmgt know much about the "in use" status for real >> partitions? >> > > Well, certainly for EFI labeled disks. Why would these be different? > > "I used this free partition but now XP is gone". > > Casper > >
Parted has code in it to prevent modification of in-use partitions. It calls an OS stub before doing anything dangerous. I will use libdiskmgmt to fill in that stub for Solaris. Mark
