Re: GPT BIOS boot

[manu%netbsd.org@localhost (Emmanuel Dreyfus)]

Robert Elz <kre%munnari.OZ.AU@localhost> wrote:

> I suspect that what you're thinking of is when some other partitioning
> scheme is used - both MBR and disklabel are limited to 32 bit block
> counts and offsets.    (GPT isn't).    Nb: block counts: if you have a
> 4KB block size device, then you can get (2^32 -1 ) * 4K bytes of
> filesystem size, even with those old labelling methods. 

You mean I edit the disklabel, change bytes/sector from 512 to 4096, and
recompute everything with the new block size?

Will that work with an existing filesystem (without the need to run
newfs again)?

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