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Diffstat (limited to 'lib/geom/part')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/geom/part/gpart.8 | 13 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/lib/geom/part/gpart.8 b/lib/geom/part/gpart.8 index 80ea0a317d3a..a19f06dd67be 100644 --- a/lib/geom/part/gpart.8 +++ b/lib/geom/part/gpart.8 @@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ .\" .\" $FreeBSD$ .\" -.Dd June 17, 2018 +.Dd September 3, 2019 .Dt GPART 8 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -1207,7 +1207,13 @@ variables can be used to control the behavior of the GEOM class. The default value is shown next to each variable. .Bl -tag -width indent -.It Va kern.geom.part.auto_resize: No 1 +.It Va kern.geom.part.allow_nesting : No 0 +By default, some schemes (currently BSD, BSD64 and VTOC8) do not permit +further nested partitioning. +This variable overrides this restriction and allows arbitrary nesting (except +within partitions created at offset 0). +Some schemes have their own separate checks, for which see below. +.It Va kern.geom.part.auto_resize : No 1 This variable controls automatic resize behavior of .Nm GEOM class. @@ -1228,6 +1234,9 @@ disk metadata. If some inconsistency is detected, the partition table will be rejected with a diagnostic message: .Sy "GEOM_PART: Integrity check failed (provider, scheme)" . +.It Va kern.geom.part.gpt.allow_nesting : No 0 +By default the GPT scheme is allowed only at the outermost nesting level. +This variable allows this restriction to be removed. .It Va kern.geom.part.ldm.debug : No 0 Debug level of the Logical Disk Manager (LDM) module. This can be set to a number between 0 and 2 inclusive. |