On Thu, 23 Jul 2015 12:07:26 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: > > Why is a new installation using a 1980s partition scheme? > > Is that you, Lennart? But seriously, if it works, why junk it?
If it works, why are you having problems with it? > Here's my question to you... why should we junk software that works, > i.e. it does what we need? I want a real reason. The fact that it's > old is not a justification. Neither is "teh shiney". It's not the age in years, it's that it was designed for a world where a 10MB drive was considered large. MBR is full of kludges to get it to work with drives a tiny fraction of the size of current hardware, like the stupid 4 partition limit. GPT has no such restrictions, and it more reliable too, as it saves a backup of the partition table. MBR doesn't even save the partition table at all one you introduce logical partitions, let alone a backup. Not all progress is to make it more shiny, some just works better and learns from the past. Or are you still using XFree86 rather than XOrg? :P -- Neil Bothwick Windows will never cease.
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