On Mon, 13 Aug 2012 08:17:23 -0400, Michael Mol wrote: > > GRUB2 works fine with MBR partition tables. But if you're starting > > from scratch, you may as well use GPT and get rid of the legacy MBR > > limitations and fragility. > > > > I'm not dissing GPT...but what's fragile about MBR?
The MBR contains only details of the primary partitions, the logical partition details are scattered over the disk, and there's no backup of either. Making your own backup is non-trivial, even if you bother. GPT puts all the partition information in one block, and keeps a backup copy elsewhere (rather like filesystems do with superblocks). That makes GPT more resilient to corruption in the first place and easier to recover if things do go bad. Remember that GPT was designed with the benefit of decades of hindsight over the limitations of DOS partition tables. -- Neil Bothwick In plumbing, a straight flush is better than a full house.
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