[LUG] From the "learn something new everyday" department: GPT

[Gordon Henderson <gordon+dcglug@xxxxxxxxxx>]

aka: GUID Partition Types

Needed if you want a partition > 2TB. Seems to be repacing ye olde MS-DOS 
type partitions anyway. The Debian squeeze picked it by default when I 
gave it a 3TB drive to play with.

Seems to work in Debian Squeeze... and gnu-fdisk is a usable text-based 
tool to manipulate them too. (replaces cfdisk & fdisk)

Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sdb1             2.7T  201M  2.6T   1% /mnt

Lilo seems OK with it too.

Gordon

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