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From: Kurt H Maier <khm@sciops.net>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Regarding GUID partitioning
Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2019 23:01:08 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190421060108.GB21700@wopr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJQ9t7jwuN+BZkDssmcwimoQ4_LTeMjkuiQrX9n_uUKE+f2O7Q@mail.gmail.com>

On Sun, Apr 21, 2019 at 07:09:27AM +0200, Lucio De Re wrote:
>
> So, to be clear: is there a Plan 9 supported facility to configure a
> drive according to the more modern, "don't knock it until you've tried
> it" (hmm, some here will have some valid criticism, I'd like to hear
> that) disk partitioning system?
>

9front supports it and will prompt you to choose between GPT or MBR
during installation.  As far as I know the two main limitations to
9front GPT support are that it can only read (not write) hybrid MBR/GPT
partition tables, and it does not yet have a man page.

The code, from cinap is in the 9front tree at
sys/src/cmd/disk/prep/edisk.c and anyone who wants to take a crack at
producing some documentation is welcome to.

khm



  reply	other threads:[~2019-04-21  6:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-04-21  5:09 Lucio De Re
2019-04-21  6:01 ` Kurt H Maier [this message]
2019-04-21  6:25 cinap_lenrek
2019-04-21  6:48 ` Lucio De Re

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