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Date: Tue, 15 May 2007 09:58:59 GMT
From: Victor Engmark<victor.engmark@gmail.com>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Handbook GEOM_GPT explanation does not provide accurate information
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>Number:         112682
>Category:       docs
>Synopsis:       Handbook GEOM_GPT explanation does not provide accurate information
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    wblock
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       handbook
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          doc-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Tue May 15 10:10:02 GMT 2007
>Closed-Date:    Sat Jun 23 22:01:36 UTC 2012
>Last-Modified:  Sat Jun 23 22:01:36 UTC 2012
>Originator:     Victor Engmark
>Release:        6.2-RELEASE
>Organization:
>Environment:
>Description:
The current handbook, chapter 8.4, explains the kernel option "GEOM_GPT" as enabling "a large number of partitions on a single disk." How many?

More importantly, this is not sufficient information for anybody who has performed an installation with the default partitioning. Will disabling this option break a default installation?

Also, is this option necessary in order to /create/ partitions, just to /use/ them, or both?
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Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-doc->wblock 
Responsible-Changed-By: wblock 
Responsible-Changed-When: Sat Jun 23 21:55:29 UTC 2012 
Responsible-Changed-Why:  
Take. 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=112682 

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Subject: Re: docs/112682: commit references a PR
Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2012 21:59:00 +0000 (UTC)

 Author: wblock
 Date: Sat Jun 23 21:58:51 2012
 New Revision: 39097
 URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/39097
 
 Log:
   Replace overly-terse explanation of GEOM_PART_GPT with a link and point
   out that the standard config supports 128 partitions.
   
   PR:		112682
   Submitted by:	Victor Engmark
 
 Modified:
   head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/kernelconfig/chapter.sgml
 
 Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/kernelconfig/chapter.sgml
 ==============================================================================
 --- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/kernelconfig/chapter.sgml	Sat Jun 23 14:28:39 2012	(r39096)
 +++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/kernelconfig/chapter.sgml	Sat Jun 23 21:58:51 2012	(r39097)
 @@ -723,8 +723,11 @@ options          NFS_ROOT          # NFS
  
      <programlisting>options          GEOM_PART_GPT     # GUID Partition Tables.</programlisting>
  
 -    <para>This option brings the ability to have a large number of
 -      partitions on a single disk.</para>
 +    <para>Adds support for <ulink
 +	url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GUID_Partition_Table">GUID
 +      Partition Tables</ulink>.  GPT provides the ability to have a
 +      large number of partitions per disk, 128 in the standard
 +      configuration.</para>
  
      <programlisting>options          COMPAT_43         # Compatible with BSD 4.3 [KEEP THIS!]</programlisting>
  
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State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: wblock 
State-Changed-When: Sat Jun 23 22:00:57 UTC 2012 
State-Changed-Why:  
Correction committed to Handbook kernel config chapter.  Thanks! 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=112682 
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