svn commit: r39097 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/kernelconfig

Warren Block wblock at FreeBSD.org
Sat Jun 23 21:58:51 UTC 2012


Author: wblock
Date: Sat Jun 23 21:58:51 2012
New Revision: 39097
URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/39097

Log:
  Replace overly-terse explanation of GEOM_PART_GPT with a link and point
  out that the standard config supports 128 partitions.
  
  PR:		112682
  Submitted by:	Victor Engmark

Modified:
  head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/kernelconfig/chapter.sgml

Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/kernelconfig/chapter.sgml
==============================================================================
--- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/kernelconfig/chapter.sgml	Sat Jun 23 14:28:39 2012	(r39096)
+++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/kernelconfig/chapter.sgml	Sat Jun 23 21:58:51 2012	(r39097)
@@ -723,8 +723,11 @@ options          NFS_ROOT          # NFS
 
     <programlisting>options          GEOM_PART_GPT     # GUID Partition Tables.</programlisting>
 
-    <para>This option brings the ability to have a large number of
-      partitions on a single disk.</para>
+    <para>Adds support for <ulink
+	url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GUID_Partition_Table">GUID
+      Partition Tables</ulink>.  GPT provides the ability to have a
+      large number of partitions per disk, 128 in the standard
+      configuration.</para>
 
     <programlisting>options          COMPAT_43         # Compatible with BSD 4.3 [KEEP THIS!]</programlisting>
 


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