RE: GPT name overflow

[Matt_Domsch]

> it doesn't seem like it's going to have general utility...
> (WTF is a diagnostic partition?  does anyone other than
> compaq have one?)
> 
> So, I'd lean towards compaq-diag.

Yes, Dell does too, type 0xDE.  It's generally 30-50MB, got a FAT16 file
system on it, and you get to it by pressing <F10> or something during POST.
We stick customer-runnable diagnostic software on there to help figure out
what hardware component broke. :-)

Thanks,
Matt

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