Potential F14 feature: Use GPT partition table by default for "wipe complete HD" installations

David Woodhouse dwmw2 at infradead.org
Fri Mar 19 13:04:29 UTC 2010


On Thu, 2010-03-18 at 21:55 +0100, Till Maas wrote:
> how about using GPT[0] partitions for F14 for all installations that wipe
> the whole disk to install Fedora? It is also considered to be good by
> Tejun Heo[1] and it seems to work nicely already on F12. I just
> partitioned a new HD using gdisk and the kernel seems to recognise it
> without any problems. 

Are there any good reasons to do this _other_ than so we can cope with
larger disks?

How about doing it only for disks which are too large to cope with the
DOS-style partition tables?

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David Woodhouse                            Open Source Technology Centre
David.Woodhouse at intel.com                              Intel Corporation



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