Hi. We recently had a hard drive crash on our machine which has been running debian for many years and has been incrementally upgraded. We use it for a small business. I have not yet upgraded to debian 8.0. We plan to transfer our backup to a low-spec machine (Gigabyte Brix with 120G SSD) then do the upgrade.
I note that the bootloader debian 7 has recently been upgraded to grub2. This seems to be considerably less transparent than grub-legacy. Also - should I use GPT for our new partitions? This seems to require a small partition at the beginning of the disk, but does not require extended partitions and is more flexible in terms of resizing partitions. My questions are - should I use grub-legacy (which seems to have all of our required features) or should I switch to grub2. Will grub-legacy eventually be phased out? Is GPT preferable to the old partition scheme? Thanks in advance. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/cacw2zueou_szoshu3ufww0wxza_ykp4ed60vdwokg0i73_c...@mail.gmail.com
