docs/157091: [handbook] FreeBSD Handbook needs to be updated to reflect gpart rather than obsolete gpt

Niclas Zeising niclas.zeising at gmail.com
Thu May 26 10:10:09 UTC 2011


The following reply was made to PR docs/157091; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Niclas Zeising <niclas.zeising at gmail.com>
To: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org, rsimmons0 at gmail.com
Cc:  
Subject: Re: docs/157091: [handbook] FreeBSD Handbook needs to be updated
 to reflect gpart rather than obsolete gpt
Date: Thu, 26 May 2011 12:00:31 +0200

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 Hi!
 Here is a patch that does just that.
 Regards!
 -- 
 Niclas
 
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        2^32-1 and a length of no more than 2^32-1, limiting partitions to
        2TB and disks to 4TB in most cases.  The &man.sunlabel.8; format
        is limited to 2^32-1 sectors per partition and 8 partitions for
 -      a total of 16TB. For larger disks, &man.gpt.8; partitions may be
 -      used.</para>
 +      a total of 16TB. For larger disks, &man.gpart.8; may be used to create
 +      <acronym>GPT</acronym> partitions.  <acronym>GPT</acronym> has the added
 +      benefit of not being limited to 4 slices.</para>
  
      <sect2>
        <title>Using &man.sysinstall.8;</title>
 
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