Re: use a 3TB WD Mybook on old etch system kernel 2.6.18-6-486. parted 1.7.1 has bugs. can I use modern parted on other system and move over drive

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Subject: Re: use a 3TB WD Mybook on old etch system kernel 2.6.18-6-486. parted 1.7.1 has bugs. can I use modern parted on other system and move over drive
From: Amit Uttamchandani <amit.uttam@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2013 23:32:24 +0000 (UTC)
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Should work...

Looking at the code for 2.6.18.6 it does have support for
EFI partition scheme (GPT).

To confirm if your kernel has support for it search
EFI_PARTITION in /proc/config.gz or /boot/config
to see if EFI partition is defined.

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