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On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 6:18 PM, Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On 27/06/12 02:06, Paul Hartman wrote: |
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>> On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 5:33 PM, Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.com> |
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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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>>> I've no idea whether my mainboard can boot from it. It *seems* it has |
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>>> UEFI, |
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>>> but I'm not really sure. |
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>> I think it just depends on your bootloader. Gentoo's grub legacy can |
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>> boot from GPT and of course grub2 can too. |
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> I guess I'll just try with a quick Ubuntu install. I suspect though that |
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> the BIOS must be able to actually find Grub in order to boot it, and it |
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> might not be able to. |
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I seem to recall GPT coexisting with some kind of MBR as well, or at |
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least enough of an MBR to get it to boot. But partitioning and |
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installing is not something I do very often. :) |
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I'm using GPT (created with gdisk) on my laptop which is from 2003 and |
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it works fine, so I imagine you'll be fine with anything newer as |
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well. |