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<<On Wed, 29 Oct 2003 08:12:17 -0600, Mark Nipper <nipsy@tamu.edu> said:

> initial complaints, I do think that fdisk/disklabel in sysinstall
> need to be improved upon.  They do not handle multi-terabyte disk
> arrays properly at all

You should probably use GPT on multi-terabyte disk arrays.

-GAWollman