Re: Attempt to Move Root
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- Subject: Re: Attempt to Move Root
- From: Petter Adsen <petter@synth.no>
- Date: Fri, 1 Jan 2016 10:17:11 +0100
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- In-reply-to: <201512271007.13766.gheskett@shentel.net>
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On Sun, 27 Dec 2015 10:07:13 -0500
Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> wrote:
> I made the mistake of trying to install a wheezy derivitive on a 2T
> drive that had been prepared using GPT partitions. The installer
> could not see them at all, so after 2 tries, I just let it go ahead
> and do its own partitioning and formatting to ext4. The system has
> actually worked well, on a drive that is said to be too big for MBR.
The max addressable size of a drive for MBR is 2TiB, AIUI.
> So I would like to be enlightened as to the real differences between
> the systems. URL's to the proponents sites would be fine.
You can take a look at this, for starters:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GPT
The first couple of sections highlights the differences between MBR and
GPT, and there are links to more information at the bottom of the page.
Petter
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