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In message <f0am4t$mmk$1@sea.gmane.org>, Ivan Voras writes:

>Currently, the 
>FreeBSD default is classic BSD partitions on top of MSDOS partitions, 
>and there are a couple of inconvenient things about this arrangement:

The BSD partitioning should be discontinued as fast and firmly
as possible.  By all means go GPT.

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