Hello, On 03/09/2010 04:27 PM, Jim Meyering wrote: > Related information, prompted by my recent encounter with a > tool that refused to let me use a GPT partition table. > > Partition table formats: prefer GUID/GPT: > > Having spent more than my share of time looking at partition table > formats recently, I am now strongly biased against DOS partition > tables, and for GUID/GPT ones. In addition to allowing for >2GiB > partition offsets and lengths, GPT tables provide for better > protection in case of corruption (checksums, backup table at end > of disk) and don't have the anachronistic distinction of primary > and extended/logical partitions (all partitions are "primary"). > You can even give each partition a name. The only reason to use a > DOS partition table on a new installation is if you're stuck with > a requirement of using an OS like XP on bare metal. > > Please consider encouraging the use of GPT partition tables... > or at least do not *dis*courage their use. I'll surely include it. Thanks. -- tejun -- 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
