On 9/29/2010 6:11 AM, Jim Meyering wrote: > Right. "at or beyond the 2TiB mark". > > The MBR format allocates 32 bits for each partition starting sector > number, and at 512-bytes/sector, each partition must start before the > 2TiB mark (i.e., before byte 2^32 * 512). Similarly for length. > The maximum MBR partition length is 2TiB-1 bytes.
Actually I was pointing out the limitation of the NTFS boot sector, regardless of the MBR. At first I thought you could have grub in the MBR of a GPT disk and have it chainload Windows from above 2tb, but the NTFS boot sector contains its 32 bit offset and uses that to compute disk addresses to load $Boot, so it won't work above 2tb. _______________________________________________ parted-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/parted-devel
