2017-11-29 23:10 GMT+01:00 Chris Murphy <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > a. It makes it unambiguous this drive has had some purpose, it's not a > blank slate. > b. GPT is unambiguous, checksummed, has redundancy, and a user > definable partition name 72 bytes UTF-16E to make it even more > unambiguous > c. The MBR had too few type codes, leading to a lot of ambiguity as to > a partition's contents, so on Linux the idea was for libblkid to have > a thorough understanding of (most) every conceivable volume format > signature. But GPT solves this in a more standard way, and the > explosion of undefined volume formats and binary blobs installed on > partitions has made keeping up with their identification in blkid > increasingly challenging. So, if you where me, how many gpt partition and which types would you make ? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
