Re: Sysinstall's fdisk/disklabel should be improved

On 29 Oct 2003, Garrett Wollman wrote:
> <<On Wed, 29 Oct 2003 08:12:17 -0600, Mark Nipper <nipsy_at_tamu.edu> said:
> > initial complaints, I do think that fdisk/disklabel in sysinstall
> > need to be improved upon.  They do not handle multi-terabyte disk
> > arrays properly at all
> 
> You should probably use GPT on multi-terabyte disk arrays.

	At first, I didn't even know what you were saying.  :)
Then, I remember seeing something about this when I was having my
problems, and upon refreshing my memory a second ago, I'm now on
the same page!  :)

	But, I don't know too much about the new partitioning
scheme you mention (GUID Partition Table, right?), especially
with regards to the normal PC BIOS actually recognizing it, etc.
I assume you could just use the MBR and do whatever you want with
the rest of the drive.  Anyway, do you you know of any good links
describing the reasons to use it and generally how to use it as
well as compatibility issues?  I see a few things on google about
patches and the like, but know real thorough description of all
of this, even just under FreeBSD.

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