On Wed, 18 Oct 2023 10:23:23 +0100, Michael wrote: > > Oh, and if you use GPT, you no longer need the MBR compatibility > > partition, or whatever its called. I no longer need it so I can't > > remember the exact name. > > Man pages of partitioning tools refer to it as "Protective MBR", > although I've seen it mentioned in the interwebs as "protective GPT", > which I think is more accurate. It uses the first sector (LBA 0) to > store an MBR table showing the whole disk, or 2TB if smaller, as an MBR > partition. This is the first partition on the disk, typically 1 MiB in > size. It is meant to stop 20 year old partitioning tools from messing > up a GPT partitioning scheme because they can't see it. Arguably > nobody uses Windows 98 these days, so it should be safe to not have a > protective MBR on your GPT disks.
You need it if your hardware doesn't support EFI booting. -- Neil Bothwick The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten per cent of its capacity ... the rest is overhead for the operating system.
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