On 27/06/12 01:22, Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Wed, 27 Jun 2012 01:06:53 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
I'm getting a 2TB drive which uses 4kB sectors instead of 512 byte
ones. I suppose by now everything will "just work" and the various
tools will now by default create correctly aligned partitions?
Thanks everyone for the comments. I'm using cfdisk, since I find it's
the easiest CLI partitioner (fdisk and parted don't offer menus but you
need to type commands; I hate that).
If you use a GPT partition table, you can use cgdisk and banish the
abominations of extended and logical partitions at the same time.
OK, I now have the new disk. Unfortunately, it turns out that GPT is
not an option, since Grub can't dual boot an UEFI/GPT installed Windows
7 (you can't install Windows on a GPT disk if you don't perform a UEFI
install of Windows.) And if Grub can do it, then it's much more
difficult to set up compared to a BIOS boot. I surely don't have a clue
as to how to do that.
So using MS-DOS partition tables in 2012 is still needed. Hooray!
PS:
And don't get me started on the fact that moving my Gentoo install to
the new disk is as simple as "rsync -a -x / /mnt/targetpartition" and
only takes 10 minutes, while Windows has to be cloned using partition
imaging and modifying partition position offsets so installing it from
scratch is actually easier. Sigh...
