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Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright .\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the .\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. .\" .\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR ``AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESS OR .\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES .\" OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. .\" IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, .\" INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT .\" NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, .\" DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY .\" THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT .\" (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF .\" THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. .\" .\" $FreeBSD: src/sbin/gpt/gpt.8,v 1.17 2006/06/22 22:22:32 marcel Exp $ .\" .Dd November 11, 2011 .Dt GPT 8 .Os .Sh NAME .Nm gpt .Nd GUID partition table maintenance utility .Sh SYNOPSIS .Nm .Op Ar general_options .Ar command .Op Ar command_options .Ar device ... .Sh DESCRIPTION The .Nm utility provides the necessary functionality to manipulate GUID partition tables (GPTs), but see .Sx BUGS below for how and where functionality is missing. The basic usage model of the .Nm tool follows that of the .Xr cvs 1 tool. The general options are described in the following paragraph. The remaining paragraphs describe the individual commands with their options. Here we conclude by mentioning that a .Ar device is either a special file corresponding to a disk-like device or a regular file. The command is applied to each .Ar device listed on the command line. .Ss General Options The general options allow the user to change default settings or otherwise change the behaviour that is applicable to all commands. Not all commands use all default settings, so some general options may not have an effect on all commands. .Pp The .Fl p Ar count option allows the user to change the number of partitions the GPT can accommodate. This is used whenever a new GPT is created. By default, the .Nm utility will create space for 128 partitions (or 32 sectors of 512 bytes). .Pp The .Fl r option causes the .Nm utility to open the device for reading only. Currently this option is primarily useful for the .Ic show command, but the intent is to use it to implement dry-run behaviour. .Pp The .Fl v option controls the verbosity level. The level increases with every occurrence of this option. There is no formalized definition of the different levels yet. .Ss Commands .Bl -tag -width indent .\" ==== add ==== .It Nm Ic add Oo Fl b Ar number Oc Oo Fl i Ar index Oc Oo Fl s Ar count Oc \ Oo Fl t Ar type Oc Ar device ... The .Ic add command allows the user to add a new partition to an existing table. By default, it will create a UFS partition covering the first available block of an unused disk space. The command-specific options can be used to control this behaviour. .Pp The .Fl b Ar number option allows the user to specify the starting (beginning) sector number of the partition. The minimum sector number is 1, but has to fall inside an unused region of disk space that is covered by the GPT. .Pp The .Fl i Ar index option allows the user to specify which (free) entry in the GPT table is to be used for the new partition. By default, the first free entry is selected. .Pp The .Fl s Ar count option allows the user to specify the size of the partition in sectors. The minimum size is 1. .Pp The .Fl t Ar type option allows the user to specify the partition type. The type is given as an UUID, but .Nm accepts .Cm efi , swap , ufs , hfs , linux , .Cm raid , lfs , ccd , cgd , bios , .Cm ffs , and .Cm windows as aliases for the most commonly used partition types. .\" ==== biosboot ==== .It Nm Ic biosboot Oo Fl c Ar bootcode Oc Oo Fl i Ar index Oc Ar device ... The .Ic biosboot command allows the user to configure the partition that contains the primary bootstrap program, used during .Xr boot 8 . .Pp The .Fl c option allows the user to specify the filename that .Nm should read the bootcode from. The default is to read from .Pa /usr/mdec/mbr_gpt . .Pp The .Fl i option selects the partition that should contain the primary bootstrap code, as installed via .Xr installboot 8 . .\" ==== create ==== .It Nm Ic create Oo Fl fp Oc Ar device ... The .Ic create command allows the user to create a new (empty) GPT. By default, one cannot create a GPT when the device contains a MBR, however this can be overridden with the .Fl f option. If the .Fl f option is specified, an existing MBR is destroyed and any partitions described by the MBR are lost. .Pp The .Fl p option tells .Nm to create only the primary table and not the backup table. This option is only useful for debugging and should not be used otherwise. .\" ==== destroy ==== .It Nm Ic destroy Oo Fl r Oc Ar device ... The .Ic destroy command allows the user to destroy an existing, possibly not empty GPT. .Pp The .Fl r option instructs .Nm to destroy the table in a way that it can be recovered. .\" ==== label ==== .It Nm Ic label Oo Fl a Oc Ao Fl f Ar file | Fl l Ar label Ac Ar device ... .It Nm Ic label Oo Fl b Ar number Oc Oo Fl i Ar index Oc \ Oo Fl s Ar count Oc Oo Fl t Ar type Oc \ Ao Fl f Ar file | Fl l Ar label Ac Ar device ... The .Ic label command allows the user to label any partitions that match the selection. At least one of the following selection options must be specified. .Pp The .Fl a option specifies that all partitions should be labeled. It is mutually exclusive with all other selection options. .Pp The .Fl b Ar number option selects the partition that starts at the given block number. .Pp The .Fl i Ar index option selects the partition with the given partition number. .Pp The .Fl s Ar count option selects all partitions that have the given size. This can cause multiple partitions to be removed. .Pp The .Fl t Ar type option selects all partitions that have the given type. The type is given as an UUID or by the aliases that the .Ic add command accepts. This can cause multiple partitions to be removed. .Pp The .Fl f Ar file or .Fl l Ar label options specify the new label to be assigned to the selected partitions. The .Fl f Ar file option is used to read the label from the specified file. Only the first line is read from the file and the trailing newline character is stripped. If the file name is the dash or minus sign .Pq Fl , the label is read from the standard input. The .Fl l Ar label option is used to specify the label in the command line. The label is assumed to be encoded in UTF-8. .\" ==== migrate ==== .It Nm Ic migrate Oo Fl fs Oc Ar device ... The .Ic migrate command allows the user to migrate an MBR-based disk partitioning into a GPT-based partitioning. By default, the MBR is not migrated when it contains partitions of an unknown type. This can be overridden with the .Fl f option. Specifying the .Fl f option will cause unknown partitions to be ignored and any data in it to be lost. .Pp The .Fl s option prevents migrating .Bx disk labels into GPT partitions by creating the GPT equivalent of a slice. .\" ==== recover ==== .It Nm Ic recover Ar device ... The .Ic recover command tries to restore the GPT partition label from the backup near the end of the disk. It is very useful in case the primary label was deleted. .\" ==== remove ==== .It Nm Ic remove Oo Fl a Oc Ar device ... .It Nm Ic remove Oo Fl b Ar number Oc Oo Fl i Ar index Oc \ Oo Fl s Ar count Oc Oo Fl t Ar type Oc Ar device ... The .Ic remove command allows the user to remove any and all partitions that match the selection. It uses the same selection options as the .Ic label command. See above for a description of these options. Partitions are removed by clearing the partition type. No other information is changed. .\" ==== show ==== .It Nm Ic show Oo Fl lu Oc Ar device ... The .Ic show command displays the current partitioning on the listed devices and gives an overall view of the disk contents. With the .Fl l option the GPT partition label will be displayed instead of the GPT partition type. The option has no effect on non-GPT partitions. With the .Fl u option the GPT partition type is displayed as an UUID instead of in a user friendly form. The .Fl l option takes precedence over the .Fl u option. .El .Sh EXAMPLES .Bd -literal nas# gpt show wd3 start size index contents 0 1 PMBR 1 3907029167 nas# gpt create wd3 nas# gpt show wd3 start size index contents 0 1 PMBR 1 1 Pri GPT header 2 32 Pri GPT table 34 3907029101 3907029135 32 Sec GPT table 3907029167 1 Sec GPT header nas# gpt add -s 10486224 -t swap -i 1 wd3 Partition added, use: dkctl rwd3d addwedge dk 34 10486224 to create a wedge for it nas# gpt label -i 1 -l swap_1 wd3 parition 1 on rwd3d labeled swap_1 nas# gpt show wd3 start size index contents 0 1 PMBR 1 1 Pri GPT header 2 32 Pri GPT table 34 10486224 1 GPT part - NetBSD swap 10486258 3896542877 3907029135 32 Sec GPT table 3907029167 1 Sec GPT header nas# .Ed .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr boot 8 , .Xr fdisk 8 , .Xr installboot 8 , .Xr mount 8 , .Xr newfs 8 , .Xr swapon 8 .Sh HISTORY The .Nm utility appeared in .Fx 5.0 for ia64. .Sh BUGS The development of the .Nm utility is still work in progress. Many necessary features are missing or partially implemented. In practice this means that the manual page, supposed to describe these features, is farther removed from being complete or useful. As such, missing functionality is not even documented as missing. However, it is believed that the currently present functionality is reliable and stable enough that this tool can be used without bullet-proof footware if one thinks one does not make mistakes. .Pp It is expected that the basic usage model does not change, but it is possible that future versions will not be compatible in the strictest sense of the word. For example, the .Fl p Ar count option may be changed to a command option rather than a generic option. There are only two commands that use it so there is a chance that the natural tendency for people is to use it as a command option. Also, options primarily intended for diagnostic or debug purposes may be removed in future versions. .Pp Another possibility is that the current usage model is accompanied by other interfaces to make the tool usable as a back-end. This all depends on demand and thus feedback.