On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 01:45:35PM -0400, Greg Freemyer wrote: > I believe GUID Partition Tables (GPTs) are the answer. > > I believe one of the features of GPT is the elimination of the 32-bit > sector restrictions. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GUID_Partition_Table > > Windows VISTA 64-bit supports GPTs on data disks and new Mac OS based > systems have been using it on internal drives for a couple years at > least. > > GPTs are part of the Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI), so they > should be usable for PC bootable disks at some point. (Maybe now in > some cases?) > > I'm not sure what the Linux Kernel support is for GPTs. It has been supported since the first Itanium systems shipped. It's the first code I wrote 7+ years before it was really needed. :-) Most distributions have it enabled, as do userspace tools like GNU Parted. -- Matt Domsch Linux Technology Strategist, Dell Office of the CTO linux.dell.com & www.dell.com/linux -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
