Re: Attempt to Move Root
Sven Hartge a écrit :
> Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> wrote:
>>> Le duodi 2 nivôse, an CCXXIV, Sven Hartge a écrit :
>
>>>> And this is why I love the GPT. There is a defined space for the
>>>> bootloader to be and no nether region of swirly unknowness between
>>>> the MBR and the start of the first partition.
>
>> Note that current partition tools leave a bigger gap than ~31 KB,
>> typically ~1 MB to ensure partition alignment. So on a newer
>> installation you would not face that problem again even with an MSDOS
>> partition table.
>
> Correct. But that space is still indefined and who knows what tries to
> write data into that place.
You do know, if you only install and run open source software on this
machine. However that comment was just for completeness. I advocate and
favour GPT whenever I can.
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