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Old 04-05-2010, 04:25 PM   #1
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new drive geometry vs. antique partition table details

Are there plans to alter or improve our partition options surrounding the change from 512 to 4096 byte sectors?

It seems that the DOS-world of four primary partitions is a bit screwy in a world of tera-byte drives.

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Old 04-05-2010, 07:04 PM   #2
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Well, there is GPT...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GUID_Partition_Table
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