GPART vs. GPT

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Niatross

I notice that gpart was introduced after gpt. There are many similarities between them.

Was gpart intended to supersede gpt?
 
gpart is just the command in FreeBSD (and possibly other OS's) used to manage GPT partition tables. It can also manage other partition schemes, the most obvious being MBR. They are not competing technologies.
 
Do most people just use the gpart command since it does multiple partitioning schemes (ex: fdisk, gpt, etc...) or do some people strictly use gpt command when it comes to creating a GPT partitioning scheme?

I would think everybody would use gpart command since it can create multiple partitioning schemes.
 
Dude, there's no such command as gpt in base FreeBSD. There's only gpart(8) that is actually equivalent to geom part. Everyone who wants to use GPT partitioning on FreeBSD and wants to do the partitioning with FreeBSD native tools has to use gpart(8).
 
It looks like the gpt command lasted from the 5.3-RELEASE to the 7.4-RELEASE.

Note:
There were earlier versions (5.0) of the gpt utility for platforms such as ia64.

The gpart project must of devoured and used the underpinnings of the gpt project.

BTW: Mac OS X is so far behind, they still use the gpt command. There is no gpart command in Mac OS X.
 
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