UEFI Big Drive question

[Wolfgang S. Rupprecht]

Stephen Morris <samorris at netspace.net.au> writes:
> The one limitation with GPT as I understand it is that in order to use
> GPT you must also have UEFI active in the Bios.

I use GPT on all my single-boot Fedora machines. All but one has the
traditional BIOS.  The traditional BIOS works just fine with GPT
formatted disks.

Furthermore, I use just two partitions.  Linux swap and ext4 / fs.  It
works just fine that way.  There is no need to make your life more
difficult with juggling a bunch of partitions that will need re-sizing
down the road.

> From experience I have also found that you can't install the
> windows system partition on a GPT device and I thought I read
> somewhere that you also can't put Linux /boot on GPT either.

This is true.  My laptop's MS Windows XP doesn't seem to like GPT.  Not
sure about anything more recent.  I only use the XP partition to load
updated firmware on consumer devices, so I'm not about to spend money to
upgrade an OS I use perhaps once a year.

-wolfgang