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authorae <ae@FreeBSD.org>2015-12-10 10:37:12 +0000
committerae <ae@FreeBSD.org>2015-12-10 10:37:12 +0000
commite09be5260d7ca50f73cc145d068230b0f053570f (patch)
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parent088c9d3832b82e99cbb8c982016372e79cfa0770 (diff)
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Remove a note about damaged PMBR. Now GPT will be detected automatically
with such corruption. MFC after: 1 month
Diffstat (limited to 'sbin')
-rw-r--r--sbin/geom/class/part/gpart.812
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/sbin/geom/class/part/gpart.8 b/sbin/geom/class/part/gpart.8
index 354d844..452e6b3 100644
--- a/sbin/geom/class/part/gpart.8
+++ b/sbin/geom/class/part/gpart.8
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
.\"
.\" $FreeBSD$
.\"
-.Dd July 14, 2015
+.Dd December 10, 2015
.Dt GPART 8
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -1107,15 +1107,6 @@ and
.Cm recover
are the only operations allowed on corrupt tables.
.Pp
-If the first sector of a provider is corrupt, the kernel can not detect GPT
-even if the partition table itself is not corrupt.
-The protective MBR can be rewritten using the
-.Xr dd 1
-command, to restore the ability to detect the GPT.
-The copy of the protective MBR is usually located in the
-.Pa /boot/pmbr
-file.
-.Pp
If one GPT header appears to be corrupt but the other copy remains intact,
the kernel will log the following:
.Bd -literal -offset indent
@@ -1330,7 +1321,6 @@ and
/sbin/gpart backup ada0 | /sbin/gpart restore -F ada1 ada2
.Ed
.Sh SEE ALSO
-.Xr dd 1 ,
.Xr geom 4 ,
.Xr boot0cfg 8 ,
.Xr geom 8 ,
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