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[2001:56a:7862:e400:16da:e9ff:fe13:6b04]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id i8sm9685689pjl.32.2021.03.20.21.48.31 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Sat, 20 Mar 2021 21:48:31 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2021 22:48:30 -0600 From: Duke Normandin To: Arthur Chance Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Partitioning 1T HDD Message-Id: <20210320224830.50c9ef156404af398dde38eb@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <6520a1d5-6fbc-6049-a265-bad4bbdb4787@qeng-ho.org> References: <20210319102649.2bace327e17eca8602877618@gmail.com> <24660.54990.961632.559429@jerusalem.litteratus.org> <6520a1d5-6fbc-6049-a265-bad4bbdb4787@qeng-ho.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.7.0 (GTK+ 2.24.32; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 4F34ry0Fm6z3w10 X-Spamd-Bar: - Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; dkim=pass header.d=gmail.com header.s=20161025 header.b=o3Ni12XE; dmarc=pass (policy=none) header.from=gmail.com; spf=pass (mx1.freebsd.org: domain of sidneyreilleyii@gmail.com designates 2607:f8b0:4864:20::1034 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=sidneyreilleyii@gmail.com X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-1.48 / 15.00]; RCVD_VIA_SMTP_AUTH(0.00)[]; TO_DN_SOME(0.00)[]; R_SPF_ALLOW(-0.20)[+ip6:2607:f8b0:4000::/36:c]; FREEMAIL_FROM(0.00)[gmail.com]; MV_CASE(0.50)[]; RCVD_COUNT_THREE(0.00)[3]; DKIM_TRACE(0.00)[gmail.com:+]; RCPT_COUNT_TWO(0.00)[2]; DMARC_POLICY_ALLOW(-0.50)[gmail.com,none]; FROM_EQ_ENVFROM(0.00)[]; MIME_TRACE(0.00)[0:+]; FREEMAIL_ENVFROM(0.00)[gmail.com]; ASN(0.00)[asn:15169, ipnet:2607:f8b0::/32, country:US]; MID_RHS_MATCH_FROM(0.00)[]; TAGGED_FROM(0.00)[]; DWL_DNSWL_NONE(0.00)[gmail.com:dkim]; ARC_NA(0.00)[]; RBL_DBL_DONT_QUERY_IPS(0.00)[2607:f8b0:4864:20::1034:from]; R_DKIM_ALLOW(-0.20)[gmail.com:s=20161025]; NEURAL_HAM_MEDIUM(-0.98)[-0.975]; FROM_HAS_DN(0.00)[]; NEURAL_SPAM_SHORT(1.00)[0.998]; NEURAL_HAM_LONG(-1.00)[-1.000]; MIME_GOOD(-0.10)[text/plain]; PREVIOUSLY_DELIVERED(0.00)[questions@freebsd.org]; SPAMHAUS_ZRD(0.00)[2607:f8b0:4864:20::1034:from:127.0.2.255]; TO_MATCH_ENVRCPT_SOME(0.00)[]; RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE(0.00)[2607:f8b0:4864:20::1034:from]; RCVD_TLS_ALL(0.00)[]; MAILMAN_DEST(0.00)[questions] X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.34 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2021 04:48:35 -0000 On Fri, 19 Mar 2021 17:07:05 +0000 Arthur Chance wrote: [snip] > I think there's confusion between gpart(1), the FreeBSD command line > utility, and Gparted, a GUI based program that runs on other OSes. > > I also have used GPT disks for about a decade, even on old kit with > only an old school BIOS. It's not just the far greater number of > partitions that makes it superior, it's the ability to use partition > labels regardless of what the partition contains. If you're > multibooting it's so much easier having device names > like /dev/gpt/fbsdroot in your /etc/fstab rather than having to > remember which partition number you used. Thanks for the clarification! Acronyms; synonyms; antonyms; close-but-not-quite-nyms! It all gets a bit confusing after awhile! LOL -- Duke Normandin