RFC: making gpart default

[Marcel Moolenaar]

On Dec 4, 2008, at 10:13 AM, John Baldwin wrote:

> No, the way GPT works, you have a PMBR at sector 0, then immediately  
> following
> that you have the Primary partition table in the next N sectors (the  
> first
> sector in the table has a header that contains the size of the  
> table).  Then
> you have a backup Secondary partition table in the last N sectors of  
> the disk
> as well.  At least with the old gpt(8) tool you could actually tell  
> it how
> big of a table to make when you created a GPT, and I imagine gpart  
> probably
> can do the same.

Yes. For schemes that support it, you can specify how many entries
to allocate. The 34 corresponds to 128 entries for GPT (4 entries
per sector)...

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Marcel Moolenaar
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