From ad32bf978ac26ad9894d71b21c88a16e7f9a3d57 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Andrey V. Elsukov" Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2015 10:37:12 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Remove a note about damaged PMBR. Now GPT will be detected automatically with such corruption. MFC after: 1 month --- sbin/geom/class/part/gpart.8 | 12 +----------- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 11 deletions(-) diff --git a/sbin/geom/class/part/gpart.8 b/sbin/geom/class/part/gpart.8 index 354d844349b7..452e6b3127dc 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 ,