On Fri, 10 May 2013 06:09:25 -0500, Dale wrote:

> > I myself still use fdisk whenever I can. I know I should change, I
> > know it would be good, but I'm an old fart and mostly can't be
> > arsed :-)

> I'm with ya Alan.  Update tho.  I use LVM.  I use grub2 since a week or
> so ago.  That's a lot for me. 

It's not about whether you use fdisk or gdisk, they are almost identical
in use, it's about the type of partition table you use. If you like the
idea of a partition table that only accepts four partitions, has to be
kludged to use one of those as a container if you want more, has no
simple way of backing up such a complex partition setup and has no
redundancy in case of partition table corruption, fdisk and DOS are
perfect for you :)

DOS partition tables should have died out 30 years ago, we know who we
have to thank for their continued existence...


-- 
Neil Bothwick

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