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Re: BSD disklabel partition letters in NetBSD



On 9/24/2018 12:30 PM, Rocky Hotas wrote:
Now, of course, this all became mood on most modern machines with the move
to GPT, and this is good. As you probably know, we use full devices for
these (dk* and rdk*), so no limiting alphabet nor reserved letters.

Despite vaguely knowing that GPT is replacing MBR and similar, I never
installed NetBSD with GPT, so I didn't know this.

Also consider what OTHER systems might want to have a peek at that
disk.  Make sure your partitioning/GPT/MBR choices are compatible
there, as well!

[I physically move disks around a lot and want to be sure each machine
can access the entire contents of the drive.  If the drive is in an
external enclosure -- SCSI, FW, USB -- then doubly so!]


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