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Re: GPT BIOS boot



manu%netbsd.org@localhost (Emmanuel Dreyfus) writes:

>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)?

The disklabel is supposed to give you information about the disk, and so
is part of the filesystem superblock. Providing inconsistent fake information
won't work.


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