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On 27/06/12 01:22, Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> On Wed, 27 Jun 2012 01:06:53 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: |
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>>> I'm getting a 2TB drive which uses 4kB sectors instead of 512 byte |
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>>> ones. I suppose by now everything will "just work" and the various |
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>>> tools will now by default create correctly aligned partitions? |
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>> Thanks everyone for the comments. I'm using cfdisk, since I find it's |
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>> the easiest CLI partitioner (fdisk and parted don't offer menus but you |
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>> need to type commands; I hate that). |
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> If you use a GPT partition table, you can use cgdisk and banish the |
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> abominations of extended and logical partitions at the same time. |
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OK, I now have the new disk. Unfortunately, it turns out that GPT is |
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not an option, since Grub can't dual boot an UEFI/GPT installed Windows |
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7 (you can't install Windows on a GPT disk if you don't perform a UEFI |
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install of Windows.) And if Grub can do it, then it's much more |
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difficult to set up compared to a BIOS boot. I surely don't have a clue |
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as to how to do that. |
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So using MS-DOS partition tables in 2012 is still needed. Hooray! |
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PS: |
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And don't get me started on the fact that moving my Gentoo install to |
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the new disk is as simple as "rsync -a -x / /mnt/targetpartition" and |
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only takes 10 minutes, while Windows has to be cloned using partition |
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imaging and modifying partition position offsets so installing it from |
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scratch is actually easier. Sigh... |
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