Am Tue, 7 Dec 2010 18:54:29 +0100 schrieb Dieter Plaetinck <[email protected]>:
> 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
