On Wednesday 26 May 2010 14:23:58 thib wrote: > I think > administrators should really consider GPT for their new setups now; it > has definitely more advantages than just "allowing for big partitions", > and it's darn simple (not sure how anybody could defend the "I stick to > what I know" point here). Note that this partition scheme doesn't need EFI > hardware, it's entirely backward compatible with PC/BIOS systems I agree. I think d-i onto an unpartitioned disk should probably use GPT by default. > (you can > even have hybrid GUID/DOS partition tables if you're really stuck with > crappy software). You do sacrifice one of your primary partitions to the GPT "flag" partition. If you have somehow gotten stuck with 3/4 OSes that only boot off of a primary partition, it may be quite difficult to move to GPT. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. bss@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/ \_/
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