On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 11:06:02PM +0100, Jamon Camisso via talk wrote:
You've outdone yourself and all of us. I had no idea about that backup GPT location. Maybe I should learn to appreciate GPT a little more?
TIL!
It's one of the nice features they added. All partitions are the same (no stupid primary/extended crap), you can have 128 of them, they can have identifiers that are quite large (uuid) for both the type and as a unique identifier. It has a CRC check to determine if it was corrupted, and a backup copy as far away as possible to assist when the primary fails. It is great. I can't think of any reason to stick with MBR partition tables, other than if you run windows on a machine without EFI. linux works fine with grub on GPT booting from BIOS. Oh and support for disks larger than 2TB is a nice feature too. -- Len Sorensen