Re: wedges and gpt.

[Stephen Borrill <netbsd%precedence.co.uk@localhost>]

On Wed, 7 Oct 2009, Herb Peyerl wrote:
> > > (3) Do we really need a GPT partition table, then wedges, then an
> > > MBR partition table, and then subsequently a BSD disk label?  This
> > > onion has a lot of layers.
> >
> > The idea is that you have only the GPT table. The wedges are just the
> > representation of the inidividual entries. There is no need for a disk
> > label.
>
> I couldn't newfs anything until I edited the BSD disk label; though that 
> could have been a result of confusion on my part...

I found rebooting allowed me to newfs. Until I did that, it whinged about
the partition type.

--
Stephen