From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Fri Mar 19 20:03:55 2021 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.nyi.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4EF0B5A8E0F for ; Fri, 19 Mar 2021 20:03:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from 4250.82.1d4ce0003842bce.d1d3cf1925335a57dc8d798f44d64bc9@email-od.com) Received: from mailman.nyi.freebsd.org (mailman.nyi.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::50:13]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F2FG30hBwz3ns4 for ; Fri, 19 Mar 2021 20:03:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from 4250.82.1d4ce0003842bce.d1d3cf1925335a57dc8d798f44d64bc9@email-od.com) Received: by mailman.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) id 176EB5A9402; Fri, 19 Mar 2021 20:03:55 +0000 (UTC) Delivered-To: questions@mailman.nyi.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1736C5A9401 for ; Fri, 19 Mar 2021 20:03:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from 4250.82.1d4ce0003842bce.d1d3cf1925335a57dc8d798f44d64bc9@email-od.com) Received: from s1-b0c6.socketlabs.email-od.com (s1-b0c6.socketlabs.email-od.com [142.0.176.198]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4F2FG300zZz3nmq for ; Fri, 19 Mar 2021 20:03:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from 4250.82.1d4ce0003842bce.d1d3cf1925335a57dc8d798f44d64bc9@email-od.com) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=email-od.com;i=@email-od.com;s=dkim; c=relaxed/relaxed; q=dns/txt; t=1616184235; x=1618776235; h=content-transfer-encoding:content-type:mime-version:references:in-reply-to:message-id:subject:cc:to:from:date:x-thread-info; bh=GpXf2qu1N3JaLEeu+9QQ2JHmlf08qhW2y1aKSeT/iRQ=; b=XzG1gb2JmFui9v0M68I1cgA+vWxmLSYU9+88rMjbmEEO1Ya3NAXxwbZ1tUNwx8ekzi6Q2QOIOaiwykKmX7crYN/loGc+IaGjgGhN9LT8RJsMtWrymNVo2Bw9ZeBigSvre6TNV+FUsyUknc5pOEZ0/FdXgM2UO5J/zXC73GmTcyQ= X-Thread-Info: NDI1MC4xMi4xZDRjZTAwMDM4NDJiY2UucXVlc3Rpb25zPWZyZWVic2Qub3Jn Received: from r3.us-east-2.aws.in.socketlabs.com (r3.us-east-2.aws.in.socketlabs.com [142.0.189.3]) by mxsg2.email-od.com with ESMTP(version=Tls12 cipher=Aes256 bits=256); Fri, 19 Mar 2021 16:03:48 -0400 Received: from smtp.lan.sohara.org (EMTPY [185.202.17.215]) by r3.us-east-2.aws.in.socketlabs.com with ESMTP(version=Tls12 cipher=Aes256 bits=256); Fri, 19 Mar 2021 16:03:41 -0400 Received: from [192.168.63.1] (helo=steve.lan.sohara.org) by smtp.lan.sohara.org with smtp (Exim 4.94 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1lNLLO-000LJw-QG; Fri, 19 Mar 2021 20:03:38 +0000 Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2021 20:03:38 +0000 From: Steve O'Hara-Smith To: Duke Normandin Cc: Robert Huff , questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Partitioning 1T HDD Message-Id: <20210319200338.e9000fd3e177bb4f0300ce3c@sohara.org> In-Reply-To: <20210319134723.f57186844e27c9a099cf8606@gmail.com> References: <20210319102649.2bace327e17eca8602877618@gmail.com> <24660.54990.961632.559429@jerusalem.litteratus.org> <20210319134723.f57186844e27c9a099cf8606@gmail.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.7.0 (GTK+ 2.24.33; amd64-portbld-freebsd12.1) X-Clacks-Overhead: "GNU Terry Pratchett" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 4F2FG300zZz3nmq X-Spamd-Bar: ---- Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; none X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-4.00 / 15.00]; TAGGED_RCPT(0.00)[]; REPLY(-4.00)[] X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.34 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2021 20:03:55 -0000 On Fri, 19 Mar 2021 13:47:23 -0600 Duke Normandin wrote: > Isn't GPT and acronym for gparted? No GPT is an abbreviation for Guid Partition Table which is a standard (part of the UEFI standard) that defines the layout of partition data on a disc or similar block structured store. Gparted is a tool (one of many) for editing partition tables - the FreeBSD command line tool gpart is another. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith