On Sep 2, 2011 4:35 AM, "Nathan Whitehorn" <nwhitehorn_at_freebsd.org> wrote: > > On 09/01/11 14:00, Matt Thyer wrote: >> >> Shouldn't we use MBR partitioning instead of GPT for the memstick image ? >> >> We won't need larger than 2TiB installation media for many decades! > > > It uses GPT so that the partition can be labeled, and fstab will not need e.g. da0 hard-coded into it. makefs, which builds the filesystem, does not support UFS labels. > -Nathan A hack to transparently ignore GPT partition problems on the install media might be required. Or else a utility to fix the memstick partition table.Received on Thu Sep 01 2011 - 17:25:26 UTC
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