From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Thu Mar 18 12:36:32 2021 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.nyi.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EFBC757394F for ; Thu, 18 Mar 2021 12:36:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from 4250.82.1d4ce0003379295.f0cbf5108b43d6d6803eaf48a79a87d6@email-od.com) Received: from s1-b0c6.socketlabs.email-od.com (s1-b0c6.socketlabs.email-od.com [142.0.176.198]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4F1RNJ16yWz3P2b for ; Thu, 18 Mar 2021 12:36:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from 4250.82.1d4ce0003379295.f0cbf5108b43d6d6803eaf48a79a87d6@email-od.com) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=email-od.com;i=@email-od.com;s=dkim; c=relaxed/relaxed; q=dns/txt; t=1616070992; x=1618662992; h=content-transfer-encoding:content-type:mime-version:references:in-reply-to:message-id:subject:cc:to:from:date:x-thread-info; bh=kebykEQBwM+ESdJf3dBf2aAHReOz0maM3CDWKsm7NHU=; b=X7HcX0nCOCrp0QiA3qTPYegjjiRkmSfqkmF5aOog6anPW3Sj3RHukVpsg+tzq7uvYqXU1Uvd+OwPKNStGAN/PrWQ0gGhAcmXv3SeOWW2Isrkyo524012XWSkqnqivWqixyueQjZrE6sIp5BqR8G3kjZ1Kdt2+aUvQL39nSzC678= X-Thread-Info: NDI1MC4xMi4xZDRjZTAwMDMzNzkyOTUuZnJlZWJzZC1xdWVzdGlvbnM9ZnJlZWJzZC5vcmc= Received: from r3.us-east-1.aws.in.socketlabs.com (r3.us-east-1.aws.in.socketlabs.com [142.0.191.3]) by mxsg2.email-od.com with ESMTP(version=Tls12 cipher=Aes256 bits=256); Thu, 18 Mar 2021 08:36:21 -0400 Received: from smtp.lan.sohara.org (EMTPY [185.202.17.215]) by r3.us-east-1.aws.in.socketlabs.com with ESMTP(version=Tls12 cipher=Aes256 bits=256); Thu, 18 Mar 2021 08:36:21 -0400 Received: from [192.168.63.1] (helo=steve.lan.sohara.org) by smtp.lan.sohara.org with smtp (Exim 4.94 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1lMrsx-000F9U-LK; Thu, 18 Mar 2021 12:36:19 +0000 Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2021 12:36:19 +0000 From: Steve O'Hara-Smith To: irene spanopoulou Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Partitioning 1T HDD Message-Id: <20210318123619.515bbd42bf196b5023e4ac0f@sohara.org> In-Reply-To: References: <20210317213615.7e1443af@antix1> <20210318075302.bc53f81121ad32ffbfe65961@sohara.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.7.0 (GTK+ 2.24.33; amd64-portbld-freebsd12.1) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 4F1RNJ16yWz3P2b X-Spamd-Bar: -- Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; dkim=pass header.d=email-od.com header.s=dkim header.b=X7HcX0nC; dmarc=none; spf=pass (mx1.freebsd.org: domain of 4250.82.1d4ce0003379295.f0cbf5108b43d6d6803eaf48a79a87d6@email-od.com designates 142.0.176.198 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=4250.82.1d4ce0003379295.f0cbf5108b43d6d6803eaf48a79a87d6@email-od.com X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-2.70 / 15.00]; TO_DN_SOME(0.00)[]; MV_CASE(0.50)[]; R_SPF_ALLOW(-0.20)[+ip4:142.0.176.0/20]; RCVD_COUNT_THREE(0.00)[4]; DKIM_TRACE(0.00)[email-od.com:+]; RCPT_COUNT_TWO(0.00)[2]; NEURAL_HAM_SHORT(-1.00)[-1.000]; FREEMAIL_TO(0.00)[gmail.com]; FORGED_SENDER(0.30)[steve@sohara.org,4250.82.1d4ce0003379295.f0cbf5108b43d6d6803eaf48a79a87d6@email-od.com]; RCVD_TLS_LAST(0.00)[]; RBL_DBL_DONT_QUERY_IPS(0.00)[142.0.176.198:from]; ASN(0.00)[asn:7381, ipnet:142.0.176.0/22, country:US]; MID_RHS_MATCH_FROM(0.00)[]; FROM_NEQ_ENVFROM(0.00)[steve@sohara.org,4250.82.1d4ce0003379295.f0cbf5108b43d6d6803eaf48a79a87d6@email-od.com]; ARC_NA(0.00)[]; NEURAL_HAM_MEDIUM(-1.00)[-1.000]; R_DKIM_ALLOW(-0.20)[email-od.com:s=dkim]; FROM_HAS_DN(0.00)[]; NEURAL_HAM_LONG(-1.00)[-1.000]; MIME_GOOD(-0.10)[text/plain]; DMARC_NA(0.00)[sohara.org]; SPAMHAUS_ZRD(0.00)[142.0.176.198:from:127.0.2.255]; MIME_TRACE(0.00)[0:+]; TO_MATCH_ENVRCPT_SOME(0.00)[]; RWL_MAILSPIKE_POSSIBLE(0.00)[142.0.176.198:from]; MAILMAN_DEST(0.00)[freebsd-questions] X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.34 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2021 12:36:33 -0000 On Thu, 18 Mar 2021 14:09:45 +0200 irene spanopoulou wrote: > It depends on what you want to do, if you do not need gpt, don't go with > it. MBR is a kludge from the early 1980s, the whole primary secondary partition business shows that the original design ran out of steam really early on. There's no good reason to use it now. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith | Directable Mirror Arrays C:\>WIN | A better way to focus the sun The computer obeys and wins. | licences available see You lose and Bill collects. | http://www.sohara.org/