Sven Hartge a écrit : > Pascal Hambourg <pas...@plouf.fr.eu.org> wrote: >>> Le duodi 2 nivôse, an CCXXIV, Sven Hartge a écrit : > >>>> And this is why I love the GPT. There is a defined space for the >>>> bootloader to be and no nether region of swirly unknowness between >>>> the MBR and the start of the first partition. > >> Note that current partition tools leave a bigger gap than ~31 KB, >> typically ~1 MB to ensure partition alignment. So on a newer >> installation you would not face that problem again even with an MSDOS >> partition table. > > Correct. But that space is still indefined and who knows what tries to > write data into that place.
You do know, if you only install and run open source software on this machine. However that comment was just for completeness. I advocate and favour GPT whenever I can.