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   David W. Hodgins to Bit Twister   
   Re: Where to go from Mandriva 2010   
   18 Nov 13 16:16:30   
   
   From: dwhodgins@nomail.afraid.org   
      
   On Mon, 18 Nov 2013 15:58:15 -0500, Bit Twister    
   wrote:   
      
   > I still recommend using gpt disk partition. Then create your default   
   > partition setup. That way you would be limited to 128 partitions   
   > instead of the msdos 16 partition limit, able to always boot from   
   > anywhere on the drive. I see no good reason to allocate the whole   
   > drive at this point.   
      
   Note that the 16 partition limit only existed for a few kernel   
   versions. IIRC, it's now 64 partitions on a sata/ide drive,   
   using a dos mbr style partition table.   
      
   Regards, Dave Hodgins   
      
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