>From an email from Colin Watson: ==
The partitioner has done this since November 2005. partman-partitioning (37) unstable; urgency=low [...] [ Frans Pop ] * Use gpt instead of msdos disklabel for disks larger than 2TB. [...] -- Frans Pop <f...@debian.org> Sun, 27 Nov 2005 20:19:17 +0100 == So this should only show up when creating partitions yourself, perhaps the partitioning tools need modification as well to default to GPT if they see a disk > 2TiB Some further information about this topic can be found at: http://www.carltonbale.com/2007/05/how-to-break-the-2tb-2-terabyte-file-system-limit/ http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc773223.aspx http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/device/storage/GPT_FAQ.mspx http://wdc.com/en/products/products.asp?driveid=576 As soon as > 2TiB desktop drives become available this will begin to be a problem even for Windows desktop users. Current Windows apparently will only boot off a GPT drive if the system has UEFI instead of BIOS and then only for Windows Vista SP1 x64. It is unclear to me whether Windows 7 will allow booting from GPT without needing UEFI. It appears that currently the only consumer systems with UEFI support are Macs, Intel motherboards, and some MSI motherboards. Chris -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
