On Wed, June 6, 2007 04:28, Jason Thorpe wrote:
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> GPT has absolutely nothing to do with multi-booting or anything of
> that nonsense.

It's usefulness comes to a very sudden end when used only for one OS.

> It has everything to do with being able to support very large disks

The OS-specific disklabel can handle that part. IMNSHO, the only concern
of the MBR is how to boot an IBM PC system.

> and having descriptive partition names.

Wow! We can now name our slice 'NetBSD Disklabel' instead of 169 which
implies it? Switch!!11!!!11!

Baai,

De Zeurkous
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Friggin' Machines!

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