Another Fedora 18 Alpha story

[Chris Murphy]

On Sep 17, 2012, at 3:43 PM, Adam Williamson wrote:

> Doubt it, we dropped the GPT experiment. 18, like 17, uses MS-DOS labels
> in most cases, it'll only use GPT for EFI installs or disks of 3TB+ (or
> whatever the line is, I forget - really freaking huge disks.)

2.2TB or 2TiB. Since drive manufacturers use 10^12 instead of 2^40 for "terabytes", the problem doesn't reveal itself in the real world until you get to disks labeled as 2.5TB or larger. They not all that big in a gaming, dual booting, or photography context.

Chris Murphy