Am Tue, 7 Dec 2010 18:54:29 +0100 schrieb Dieter Plaetinck <dieter@plaetinck.be>:
I'm not very familiar with this topic. Nor am i familiar with the related topic of block boundary sizes and stuff. Although tpowa tried to explain to me, this is what I wrote down:
* don't use sfdisk or cfdisk, they don't support 1MB bootsectors (which is a new standard for 4k sector drives, better alignment and win7) * parted and fdisk do. * mbr is soon dead * https://ata.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/ATA_4_KiB_sector_issues * parted is also good for GPT and uefi usage * fdisk does not support GPT * but parted has no (ncurses) UI
so yeah, lets figure out if this info is still up to date, and how we should proceed. it looks like we shoud just use parted, if we can find/make an ncurses frontend for it, all problems should be magically solved.
I'm not familiar with GPT, too. I got to know it at FrOSCon 2010 at the FreeBSD booth. Nevertheless it looked quite interesting and is necessary for partitions bigger than 2 TB. I don't know its usability, but there's a CLI tool for GPT: gdisk resp. GPT fdisk http://www.rodsbooks.com/gdisk/index.html http://sourceforge.net/projects/gptfdisk/ It's already in [extra] and on the LiveCDs Parted Magic (http://partedmagic.com) and SystemRescueCD (http://www.sysresccd.org). Parted has no ncurses GUI but can be used from the command line. I'll search for GPT tools again later. Heiko