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Re: DISKLABEL_EI option for system with MBR



paul%whooppee.com@localhost (Paul Goyette) writes:

>4. Where on the physical device is the wedge configuration saved,
>    anyway?)

There is no special wedge configuration on the disk. Wedges are
generated from labels. There is code to handle GPT, MBR and BSD disklabel,
the latter is not configured in GENERIC.

If you enable BSD disklabel discovery for wedges, it will accept
labels in either endianess.

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