[Info-vax] questions on initialize/gpt

[Simon Clubley]

On 2015-06-23, Stephen Hoffman <seaohveh at hoffmanlabs.invalid> wrote:
>
> Simon Clubley <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> writes:
>
>> AIUI, (not actually having used IA-64 VMS) the GPT.SYS file is just a 
>> fake partition created by VMS $ init to allow the contents to be 
>> visible from the console.
>
> ps: terminology arcana: GPT.SYS does protect the GPT from OpenVMS 
> stomping on it, but GPT.SYS is not itself a partition.  Not at any 
> level: not OpenVMS, nor GPT, nor MBR.
>

As I said, I've never actually used a IA-64 VMS box. :-)

I knew the blocks allocated to GPT.SYS were allocated to protect a
console visible partition on IA-64 but I had thought it was VMS
$ init itself which created that console visible partition. Oh well. :-)

Simon.

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