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Re: Adding an ioctl to check for disklabel existence

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Subject: Re: Adding an ioctl to check for disklabel existence
From: Mouse <mouse%Rodents-Montreal.ORG@localhost>
Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2019 10:48:26 -0400 (EDT)

> however, disklabel fails at >2TiB for 512 byte sector,

If _that_'s what you're concerned about, then just grow the relevant
fields (and, presumably, change the magic number).

Or fix sector sizes other than 512 bytes.

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- re: Adding an ioctl to check for disklabel existence
  - From: matthew green

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