| Summary: | gpart(8): partition type portion is somewhat vague about symbolic name applicability to scheme types | ||
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| Product: | Documentation | Reporter: | Xin LI <delphij> |
| Component: | Manual Pages | Assignee: | freebsd-bugs (Nobody) <bugs> |
| Status: | New --- | ||
| Severity: | Affects Some People | CC: | doc |
| Priority: | --- | ||
| Version: | Latest | ||
| Hardware: | Any | ||
| OS: | Any | ||
The current manual page is somewhat vague regarding applicability of a symbolic name (for example, 'ntfs') to partition scheme (for example, MBR) which can cause confusion for users. Possible improvements that I can think of for now: a) Maybe tag the partition type with scheme names, e.g., instead of: ntfs A partition that contains a NTFS or exFAT filesystem. The scheme-specific type is "!7" for MBR. Do something like: ntfs [MBR only] A partition that contains a NTFS or exFAT filesystem. The scheme-specific type is "!7" for MBR. or b) Make gpart(8) recognize the symbolic names in other schemes. For 'ntfs', just give the value of ms-basic-data when using GPT.