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On Fri, 10 May 2013 11:54:13 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: |
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> > Why anyone would choose to use the ultra-kludged DOS partition tables |
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> > when GPT is so much more elegant is beyond me, unless they have old |
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> > hardware that can't read a GPT disk. |
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> Familiarity, I suppose. I've used the same layout for several years. |
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> fdisk can easily handle a 1 terabyte disk. |
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It's not fdisk that is the problem, it is the bastardised partition table |
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layout with bits f information scattered all over the disk and little |
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change of recovery in the event of corruption. GPT on the other hand can |
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handle a sensible number of partitions, includes details of them all in |
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the partition table and saves a backup copy to the end of the disk. |
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Neil Bothwick |
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I work with User-Surly Software. |
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