New disk label type

[Haines Brown]

I added an empty SATA drive to my machine which runs a SCSI drive. When
I go to partition it with cfdisk, the first think is I'm asked to select
"New disk label type" and have the options amiga, bsd, gpt, msdos, etc.

I googled to find out which I should use, but no clear answer. I suspect
it is gpt, and I suspect it is the default.

I need reassurance that gpt is the right choice. Where could I read up
more on this issue?

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Haines Brown, KB1GRM

[Trevor Hemsley]

GPT is required for devices larger than 2TB, otherwise MSDOS is a better - more
cross platform - choice.

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Trevor Hemsley, Brighton, UK
Trevor dot Hemsley at ntlworld dot com

[Haines Brown]

"Trevor Hemsley" <Trevor....@mytrousers.ntlworld.com> writes:

Trevor, thanks. My disk is 860 GB, and so apparently it need
MSDOS. Where is there a discussion of these matters?

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Haines Brown, KB1GRM

[Trevor Hemsley]

On Fri, 3 Oct 2008 20:41:17 UTC in comp.os.linux.hardware, Haines Brown
<bro...@teufel.hartford-hwp.com> wrote:

> Trevor, thanks. My disk is 860 GB, and so apparently it need
> MSDOS. Where is there a discussion of these matters?

Well, sticking "gpt msdos fdisk" into google is fairly good start and on the
first page of hits you'll find
http://www.unixgods.org/~tilo/linux_larger_2TB.html which has a small chart of
the differences/advantages of each type. It may not be the most verbose of
explanations but it covers the bits you're probably most interested in.

[Haines Brown]

Trevor, thanks for the pointer. I was googling for cfdisk + etc. and
getting nowhere fast.

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Haines Brown, KB1GRM