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