Re: [GTALUG] soapbox, what I consider a GParted failure

D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk said on Fri, 25 Oct 2024 11:51:42 -0400 (EDT)

MBR is old.

Oh, for shame!

It was a simple hack based on how the IBM PC booted.

Linux was a simple hack based on Unix.

Don't use it.

Use it for your boot drive if you can. UEFI is a mess even in its specifications, hardware vendors' botched implementation makes it worse, and its attack surface is breathtaking compared to MBR. There's nothing stopping you from using the boot drive MBR and the rest of your drives the very nice GPT (but not UEFI). [snip]

So: use MBR unless you have some reason not to.

When it comes to the boot drive, the preceding sentence is what I've been saying. SteveT Steve Litt http://444domains.com