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Just use the default geometry (Score:5, Informative)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Wednesday February 27, 2008 @08:42PM (#22581938)

You don't need to set the disk geometry unless you have weird-ass old disk hardware. Just accept the defaults.

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- Re:Just use the default geometry (Score:5, Funny)
  
  by djupedal ( 584558 ) writes: on Wednesday February 27, 2008 @09:01PM (#22582178)
  
  Leave my old weird ass out of this...
  
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  by Brian Gordon ( 987471 ) writes:
  
  Hold on, if you partition with a different utility like gparted/qtparted, will BSD take the space it's given or insist on partitioning something itself?
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    by Anonymous Coward writes:
    
    If you have pre-existing partitions that you want to use, it will be perfectly happy with that arrangement.
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  by eosp ( 885380 ) writes:
  
  We xkcd readers would likely refer to "weird ass-old disk hardware." CAPTCHA: probed.

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