Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2021 22:48:30 -0600 From: Duke Normandin <sidney.reilley.ii@gmail.com> To: Arthur Chance <freebsd@qeng-ho.org> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Partitioning 1T HDD Message-ID: <20210320224830.50c9ef156404af398dde38eb@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <6520a1d5-6fbc-6049-a265-bad4bbdb4787@qeng-ho.org> References: <20210319102649.2bace327e17eca8602877618@gmail.com> <24660.54990.961632.559429@jerusalem.litteratus.org> <6520a1d5-6fbc-6049-a265-bad4bbdb4787@qeng-ho.org>
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On Fri, 19 Mar 2021 17:07:05 +0000 Arthur Chance <freebsd@qeng-ho.org> wrote: [snip] > I think there's confusion between gpart(1), the FreeBSD command line > utility, and Gparted, a GUI based program that runs on other OSes. > > I also have used GPT disks for about a decade, even on old kit with > only an old school BIOS. It's not just the far greater number of > partitions that makes it superior, it's the ability to use partition > labels regardless of what the partition contains. If you're > multibooting it's so much easier having device names > like /dev/gpt/fbsdroot in your /etc/fstab rather than having to > remember which partition number you used. Thanks for the clarification! Acronyms; synonyms; antonyms; close-but-not-quite-nyms! It all gets a bit confusing after awhile! LOL -- Duke Normandin <sidney.reilley.ii@gmail.com>
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