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30 .\" Jonathan A. Kollasch used vnd(4) as the template for this man page.
41 .Cd "options DKWEDGE_AUTODISCOVER"
42 .Cd "options DKWEDGE_METHOD_BSDLABEL"
43 .Cd "options DKWEDGE_METHOD_GPT"
44 .Cd "options DKWEDGE_METHOD_MBR"
48 driver provides a disk-like interface to an area of a physical disk.
49 Wedges may be configured manually with
51 or automatically by the kernel upon the attachment of the physical disk.
53 .Bl -tag -width DKWEDGE_METHOD_BSDLABEL
54 .It Dv DKWEDGE_AUTODISCOVER
55 Automatically detect and configure wedges using any available methods.
56 .It Dv DKWEDGE_METHOD_BSDLABEL
57 BSD disklabel detection method.
58 .It Dv DKWEDGE_METHOD_GPT
59 Extensible Firmware Interface Globally Unique Identifier Partition Table
60 (GPT) detection method.
61 .It Dv DKWEDGE_METHOD_MBR
62 IBM PC-compatible Master Boot Record (MBR) partitioning detection method,
63 with support for Extended MBRs.
66 .Bl -tag -width /dev/XXrXdkX -compact
80 driver first appeared in