I am still trying to understand partitioning in NetBSD. I understand the need to partition the active disk using fdisk, but am I correct in thinking I don't need to use fdisk to partition a second disk dedicated entirely to data? Is disklabel partitioning enough for this second disk? If so, can I offset the data partition at sector 0 or do I need to offset it at sector 63? And finally, is a disk partitioned this way able to grow to more than 2 TB? I understand a disk partitioned using fdisk has a 2 TB partition-size limit, but NetBSD supports enormous partitions of zetabyes, which makes me think these partitions must be created using disklabel !!! I apologise if these are very basic questions for people here. My head is spinning trying to understand the online documentation. :) -- Gerard Lally
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