From 3983825ca8a3fdaa859decb902f72e866a93dc60 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Benedict Reuschling Date: Thu, 26 May 2011 18:28:23 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Mention the partitioning of large disks using gpart(8). PR: docs/157091 Submitted by: Robert Simmons (rsimmons0 at gmail dot com) Patch by: Niclas Zeising (niclas dot zeising at gmail dot com) --- en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/disks/chapter.sgml | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/disks/chapter.sgml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/disks/chapter.sgml index 5c036d6437..2cc52a1d76 100644 --- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/disks/chapter.sgml +++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/disks/chapter.sgml @@ -200,8 +200,9 @@ 2^32-1 and a length of no more than 2^32-1, limiting partitions to 2TB and disks to 4TB in most cases. The &man.sunlabel.8; format is limited to 2^32-1 sectors per partition and 8 partitions for - a total of 16TB. For larger disks, &man.gpt.8; partitions may be - used. + a total of 16TB. For larger disks, &man.gpart.8; may be used to + create GPT partitions. GPT + has the added benefit of not being limited to 4 slices. Using &man.sysinstall.8;