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| Now, the reason why I referred to the MBR before as being ' | Now, the reason why I referred to the MBR before as being ' | ||
| - | What it if we just want a single partition to expand | + | What it if we just want a single partition to span the entire disk's contents. Well, there are two ways of specifying this: |
| - | * Have an MBR that specifies just a single partition that spans the entire disk | + | * Have an MBR that specifies just a single partition that spans the entire disk (apart from the first 512 bytes needed for the MBR) |
| * Omit the MBR, and just let the single partition span the entire disk (including the first 512 bytes where the MBR would have been) | * Omit the MBR, and just let the single partition span the entire disk (including the first 512 bytes where the MBR would have been) | ||
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