Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2021 17:07:05 +0000 From: Arthur Chance <freebsd@qeng-ho.org> To: Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com>, Duke Normandin <sidney.reilley.ii@gmail.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Partitioning 1T HDD Message-ID: <6520a1d5-6fbc-6049-a265-bad4bbdb4787@qeng-ho.org> In-Reply-To: <24660.54990.961632.559429@jerusalem.litteratus.org> References: <20210319102649.2bace327e17eca8602877618@gmail.com> <24660.54990.961632.559429@jerusalem.litteratus.org>
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On 19/03/2021 16:52, Robert Huff wrote: > > Duke Normandin <sidney.reilley.ii@gmail.com> writes: > >> Other than being GUI-based, is there any distinct advantage to >> using GPT? > > Um ... I have used GPT for about 10 years. > Never have I used it with a GUI. I think there's confusion between gpart(1), the FreeBSD command line utility, and Gparted, a GUI based program that runs on other OSes. I also have used GPT disks for about a decade, even on old kit with only an old school BIOS. It's not just the far greater number of partitions that makes it superior, it's the ability to use partition labels regardless of what the partition contains. If you're multibooting it's so much easier having device names like /dev/gpt/fbsdroot in your /etc/fstab rather than having to remember which partition number you used. -- The number of people predicting the demise of Moore's Law doubles every 18 months.
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