Date: Thu, 26 May 2011 10:10:08 GMT From: Niclas Zeising <niclas.zeising@gmail.com> To: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: docs/157091: [handbook] FreeBSD Handbook needs to be updated to reflect gpart rather than obsolete gpt Message-ID: <201105261010.p4QAA8TB055367@freefall.freebsd.org>
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From: Niclas Zeising <niclas.zeising@gmail.com>
To: bug-followup@FreeBSD.org, rsimmons0@gmail.com
Cc:
Subject: Re: docs/157091: [handbook] FreeBSD Handbook needs to be updated
to reflect gpart rather than obsolete gpt
Date: Thu, 26 May 2011 12:00:31 +0200
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Hi!
Here is a patch that does just that.
Regards!
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Niclas
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RCS file: /home/ncvs/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/disks/chapter.sgml,v
retrieving revision 1.307
diff -u -d -r1.307 chapter.sgml
--- chapter.sgml 21 Mar 2011 14:04:13 -0000 1.307
+++ chapter.sgml 26 May 2011 09:24:09 -0000
@@ -200,8 +200,9 @@
2^32-1 and a length of no more than 2^32-1, limiting partitions to
2TB and disks to 4TB in most cases. The &man.sunlabel.8; format
is limited to 2^32-1 sectors per partition and 8 partitions for
- a total of 16TB. For larger disks, &man.gpt.8; partitions may be
- used.</para>
+ a total of 16TB. For larger disks, &man.gpart.8; may be used to create
+ <acronym>GPT</acronym> partitions. <acronym>GPT</acronym> has the added
+ benefit of not being limited to 4 slices.</para>
<sect2>
<title>Using &man.sysinstall.8;</title>
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