Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2021 18:51:06 -0600 From: Duke Normandin <sidney.reilley.ii@gmail.com> To: Kevin Oberman <rkoberman@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Partitioning 1T HDD Message-ID: <20210318185106.82ace6b0a2e6d3b78ecc890f@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CAN6yY1v2n_J268LFeQTeOizPZgnrehCRc1b1h=F93j_eabMqLA@mail.gmail.com> References: <20210317213615.7e1443af@antix1> <CAN6yY1sK-aFEOmWTbo%2Boo1mWVdNiU6emMUMXwkw7Vy4m6CA_kA@mail.gmail.com> <20210318105902.0fad52928f1c43dea056bcb6@gmail.com> <44czvwgza8.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <20210318120751.23e1e2f565e2face195d9d73@gmail.com> <CAN6yY1v2n_J268LFeQTeOizPZgnrehCRc1b1h=F93j_eabMqLA@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, 18 Mar 2021 13:00:20 -0700 Kevin Oberman <rkoberman@gmail.com> wrote: > I'd like to point out the GPT works for either MBR or EFI booting. My old > laptop had broken EFI support, so had to be MBR, but the partitioning was > GPT which is far easier to use and manage. It is likely true that EFI > requires GPT, but MBR does not. I'm not even positive about EFI > requirements, but it does need more partitions, so using it without GPT > would be, at best, awkward. Thanks for fleshing out the answer to my questions. Are you talking about using GPT rather than fdisk/cfdisk? -- Duke Normandin <sidney.reilley.ii@gmail.com>
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