Provide an articulate example of how to properly delete partitions and
partitioning scheme. Users often get confused and frustrated when trying to delete partition table and getting ``Device busy'' error because they forgot (or did not ever know that they have) to delete all its partitions first, and while the manual page mentions this briefly, it does not stress it out enough. Approved by: ae, manpages (bjk) PR (as inspiration): 196102 Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D12336
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.\" $FreeBSD$
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.\"
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.Dd July 25, 2016
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.Dd September 19, 2017
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.Dt GPART 8
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.Os
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.Sh NAME
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.Bd -literal -offset indent
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/sbin/gpart bootcode -p /boot/boot1 da0
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.Ed
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.Ss Deleting partitions and partitioning scheme
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If you get a
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.Em "Device busy"
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error when trying to destroy a partition table, remember that you must
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delete all its partitions first with the
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.Cm delete
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action.
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In this example, assume we have
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.Pa da0
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with three partitions:
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.Bd -literal -offset indent
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/sbin/gpart delete -i 3 da0
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/sbin/gpart delete -i 2 da0
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/sbin/gpart delete -i 1 da0
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/sbin/gpart destroy da0
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.Ed
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.Pp
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Alternatively, you can invoke the
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.Cm destroy
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action with the
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.Fl F
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flag.
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.Ed
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.Ss Backup and Restore
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.Pp
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Create a backup of the partition table from
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