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39.Dd August 13, 2006
40.Dt DK 4
41.Os
42.Sh NAME
43.Nm dk
44.Nd Disk partition
45.Pq wedge
46driver
47.Sh SYNOPSIS
48.Cd "options DKWEDGE_AUTODISCOVER"
49.Cd "options DKWEDGE_METHOD_BSDLABEL"
50.Cd "options DKWEDGE_METHOD_GPT"
51.Cd "options DKWEDGE_METHOD_MBR"
52.Sh DESCRIPTION
53The
54.Nm
55driver provides a disk-like interface to an area of a physical disk.
56Wedges may be configured manually with
57.Xr dkctl 8
58or automatically by the kernel upon the attachment of the physical disk.
59.Sh KERNEL OPTIONS
60.Bl -tag -width DKWEDGE_METHOD_BSDLABEL
61.It Dv DKWEDGE_AUTODISCOVER
62Automatically detect and configure wedges using any available methods.
63.It Dv DKWEDGE_METHOD_BSDLABEL
64BSD disklabel detection method.
65.It Dv DKWEDGE_METHOD_GPT
66Extensible Firmware Interface Globally Unique Identifier Partition Table
67(GPT) detection method.
68.It Dv DKWEDGE_METHOD_MBR
69IBM PC-compatible Master Boot Record (MBR) partitioning detection method,
70with support for Extended MBRs.
71.El
72.Sh FILES
73.Bl -tag -width /dev/XXrXdkX -compact
74.It Pa /dev/{,r}dk*
75.Nm
76device special files.
77.El
78.Sh SEE ALSO
79.Xr config 1 ,
80.Xr MAKEDEV 8 ,
81.Xr disklabel 8 ,
82.Xr dkctl 8 ,
83.Xr fdisk 8
84.Sh HISTORY
85The
86.Nm
87driver first appeared in
88.Nx 3.0 .
89.Sh AUTHORS
90The
91.Nm
92driver was written by
93.An Jason R. Thorpe .
94