Re: Attempt to Move Root
Petter Adsen a écrit :
> 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.
Yes, assuming standard 512-byte sectors. A lot more with large 4096-byte
sectors ("4Kn" Advanced Format).
2 TiB > 2 TB, so GPT is not required for a 2 TB disk. However GPT has
other advantages over MSDOS than maximum addressable size.
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