On Sat, Mar 28, 2020 at 5:06 AM <tu...@posteo.de> wrote: > ...because I have experienced neither any restrictions nor any > fragilities in the last 12 years of using a MTB setup with that > "MS-DOS" setup (technically it is more a MTB-setup. MSDOS refers > to V/FAT, which needs to be used with UEFI in the first partition > as far as I know...isn't it?) > > In short: Never chance a runnig system. > > But let us better discuss on a more technical level, since I asked > for technical help and not for more rethorical given question as > an answer.
Here's a technical reason to prefer GPT universally: it stores 2 copies of the partition table, one at the start of the disk and one at the end of the disk. If either copy gets destroyed, you should be able to recover the partition table from the other copy.
