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Re: Partition question (Was new installer disklabel question)

by Theo de Raadt :: Rate this Message:

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> What reasons are there for not extending partitions to z?  With 2T disks
> out, having 14 partitions means not being able to make smaller ones.

I could make it 32 partitions, but utterly break backwards compatibility
with previous releases...  or accept that the current situation covers
99.99% of usage cases.

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