New BSD Installer

[Adam Vande More]

On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 8:10 PM, Jeremy Chadwick
<freebsd at jdc.parodius.com>wrote:

> I'm surprised that given the nature of these two bits (GPT vs. GEOM),
> that the GEOM layer cannot simply lie about the full capacity of the
> partition, or something to that effect.
>

GEOM can already do this. gvirstor and gnop do something like this, and
gnop may be of particular use.  You could gmirror some drives, gnop it to a
slightly smaller provider, then GPT the resulting device.  At least that's
how it could work in my understanding, I haven't actually attempted it.

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Adam Vande More