August 13, 2006 DK 4

### NAME

dk - Disk partition (wedge) driver

### SYNOPSIS

options DKWEDGE_AUTODISCOVER options DKWEDGE_METHOD_BSDLABEL options DKWEDGE_METHOD_GPT options DKWEDGE_METHOD_MBR

### DESCRIPTION

The dk driver provides a disk-like interface to an area of a physical disk. Wedges may be configured manually with dkctl(8) or automatically by the kernel upon the attachment of the physical disk.

### KERNEL OPTIONS

```DKWEDGE_AUTODISCOVER`
  Automatically detect and configure wedges using any available methods.

```DKWEDGE_METHOD_BSDLABEL`
  BSD disklabel detection method.

```DKWEDGE_METHOD_GPT`
  Extensible Firmware Interface Globally Unique Identifier Partition Table (GPT) detection method.

```DKWEDGE_METHOD_MBR`
  IBM PC-compatible Master Boot Record (MBR) partitioning detection method, with support for Extended MBRs.

### FILES

```/dev/{,r}dk*`
  dk device special files.

### SEE ALSO

config(1), MAKEDEV(8), disklabel(8), dkctl(8), fdisk(8)

### HISTORY

The dk driver first appeared in NetBSD3.0.

### AUTHORS

The dk driver was written by Jason R. Thorpe
.