Occasionally something restores my faith in sanity: NetBSD has a simple command line interface for partitioning drives according to the new canon: GUID.
Now, I've been meaning to install a live(ly) version of 9front and serve it from my 9legacy server and a few details have interfered with my efforts, I will petition this forum for further assistance in this matter later. It means that experimenting with 9front is not my first port of call. Now, I'm pretty sure (David and our other brave co-conspirators are welcome to call me a liar) that 9legacy does not support such GUID partitioning, but perhaps 9front has had to face that dragon: did it ever? Just so we understand the emotional factors: I'm no fan of fancy BIOS tweaks (re-invention, to be precise) intended for the mega-Illuminati to stop me using my desktop to conquer the world, but GUID is simple enough to make sense of, it provides far more backwards compatibility than electric cars do with our antidiluvian road system and I am seriously considering using it (in my more adventurous moments) instead of NetBSD's rather eccentric own partitioning system which GUID seems set to obsolete. Those of you who have not yet discarded NetBSD will get my meaning. So, to be clear: is there a Plan 9 supported facility to configure a drive according to the more modern, "don't knock it until you've tried it" (hmm, some here will have some valid criticism, I'd like to hear that) disk partitioning system? It seems to me that not all committees (I'm looking at you, Evolution!) produce camels! Lucio.
