On Sun, 27 Dec 2015 10:07:13 -0500 Gene Heskett <ghesk...@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 -- "I'm ionized" "Are you sure?" "I'm positive."