
On 2024-10-25 03:59, CAREY SCHUG via talk wrote:
Your response is helpful Lennart, and this ignorant ex-mainframer even believes he understands. Thank you.
before going further, since my disks are empty, based upon this from the internet:
MBR is compatible with legacy and older operating systems that do not support GPT. On the other hand, if you have a newer computer with UEFI firmware, GPT is recommended for better compatibility and support for modern features.Jul 11, 2023
should i format with a GPT partition table? IIRC every system I have seen (other than Sun) has had a MBR partition table. to make sure my older computers can access it (hopefuly won't need to), will any operating system that supports 4 terabyte filesystems support GPT?
As a general rule you sould take any disk/flash/ssd and partition and format it before using it. The lovely feature of Windows to connect to new media and then run the code on it has been used to cause huge numbers of computer infections. Linux tends to not have as much of the autostart magic but it is still possible for someone to hide a virus on the device. It could also be possible to create intentionally broken filesystems to take advantage of unknown bugs. With a new device you have no idea who has handled it and what has been done to it. reformatting the drive only takes a few seconds and insures that you know what is on the filesystems -- Alvin Starr || land: (647)478-6285 Netvel Inc. || home: (905)513-7688 alvin@netvel.net ||