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Re: dkctl bug? partition lost on unplug



On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 01:53:38PM +0200, Martin Husemann wrote:
> On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 01:42:03PM +0200, Thomas Klausner wrote:
> > Am I missing a step somewhere that forces writing the partition to the
> > disk? Or is this a bug?
> 
> "dkctl addwedge" is a pure runtime step, it does not change the partition
> information on the disk. You probably want to edit that with gpt(8).

Indeed, thanks a lot.

Neither dkctl(8) nor dk(4) mentioned gpt(8). I've changed dkctl to be
explicit about only modifying kernel structures and added xrefs. Feel
free to improve the text :)
 Thomas


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