From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2019 23:01:08 -0700 From: Kurt H Maier To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Message-ID: <20190421060108.GB21700@wopr> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Subject: Re: [9fans] Regarding GUID partitioning Topicbox-Message-UUID: fd44a108-ead9-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 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