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Date:      Mon, 10 Jun 2002 21:34:42 +0200
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        David Greenman-Lawrence <dg@root.com>
Cc:        arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Statement of architectural direction: disklabel64 / GPT. 
Message-ID:  <10596.1023737682@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 10 Jun 2002 12:09:56 PDT." <20020610120956.L53004@nexus.root.com> 

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In message <20020610120956.L53004@nexus.root.com>, David Greenman-Lawrence writ
es:
>>We will need to support GPT for at least ia64 anyway, and I predict
>>that it will sneak into ia32 RSN as well, so this is actually less
>>work for us than doing a disklabel64.
>>
>>Any objections ?
>
>   No objections from me, but what does "GPT" stand for?

GUID Partition Table.

See around section 16.2 here:

	http://developer.intel.com/technology/efi/EFISpec_v102.pdf

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