slices, partitions, fdisk and bsdlabel on ia64

[Anton Shterenlikht]

On Wed, Jul 01, 2009 at 09:43:15PM -0700, Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
> 
> On Jul 1, 2009, at 2:31 AM, Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
> 
> > Am I correct in thinking this is a "dangerously dedicated" (no  
> > slices) disk,
> > and partitions are numbered p<number>?
> 
> You're not correct. Itanium uses GPT and not MBR for partitions.
> 
> > Does this mean the handbook section 3.5, Disk Organisation,
> > is incorrect for ia64?
> 
> Yes, it's incorrect. There's a high bias towards PC in
> the handbook. Not surprising, but it means that you
> should not take it literally.
> 
> > There's no fdisk on ia64, is there?
> 
> gpart is used for all partition, including MBR.
> 
> >
> > I can't find bsdlabel either, on alpha it's under /sbin, but
> > on ia64 it's nowhere to be found.
> 
> gpart is used for BSD disklabels as well.


Marcel, thank you, much clearer.

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