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Bug#281905: #281905 please enable CONFIG_EFI_PARTITION; it's needed for > 2TiB



severity 281905 wishlist
thanks

The EFI format is unfortunately rather misdesigned and has a backup data
area at the end of the devices - which won't be acciable by lots of usb
devices because they have broken size reporting.

This alone wouldn't be a problem if we could simply probe EFI last, but
that doesn't work either as EFI partition tables also contain a fake
dos partition table to trick around older windows versions.

Best thing for > 2TB disks is to use LVM anyway




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