gpt(8) & slice numbers

Matthew Dillon dillon at apollo.backplane.com
Fri Jul 18 09:14:40 PDT 2008


:This means that the first GPT partition is accessed as
:DragonFly slice 0, eg ad6s0.
:
:It would be easier for users and more natural, compared to current use of
:slice numbers for MBR, that first GPT partition was slice 1;
:is this possible?
:
:Otherwise disklabel[64](8) will have to be updated to very carefully descri=
:be
:different use of slice 0.
:
: -thomas
:PS: Now I can at least get GPT working ;-)

    The problem is that everything related to gpt starts at 0. If
    we use s1 for gpt partition 0 things get very confusing very
    quickly.

					-Matt
					Matthew Dillon 
					<dillon at backplane.com>





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