[ale] OT: micro mini nano PC

[DJ-Pfulio]

Folks here probably already know these things, but just incase a lurker
doesn't ...

I use GPT everywhere I can (for many, many reasons). This isn't tied to
legacy or UEFI booting on Linux systems. That is just a Windows
requirement (along with Winx64 and UEFI mandatory to boot from GPT).
Winx32 cannot boot from GPT.

GPT puts redundant partition tables at each end of a disk - that alone
makes it better than MBR. Practically unlimited partitions - no
Extended/Logical workaround needed. Large disk support. Those are just a
few highlights for GPT.

On 01/30/16 18:34, Steve Litt wrote:
> On Sat, 30 Jan 2016 17:09:38 -0500
> Sean Kilpatrick <kilpatms at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Okay; I'll show my ignorance here.  Why would you need 2TB for a root
>> partition?  I'm running CentOs 7 as a desktop, so / has a lot of crap
>> in it that ordinarily wouldn't be needed.  Even so, the boot partition
>> and / together amount to less than 10 GB.
>>
>> Sean
> 
> Yes, I phrased it wrong. What I should have said is I use MBR on
> anything where the device containing the root partition is less than
> 2tb.
> 
> In other words, with only one disk in the system, if / were  5GB,
> and /usr were 5GB, and /var were 5GB, but /home is 3TB, I'd need to use
> UEFI in order not to lose disk space.
> 
> On the desktop I'm using right now, my / consumes the entirety of a
> 128GB SSD. It also contains /usr, /usr/local, /lib and the like. It's
> formatted MBR and boots MBR.
> 
> My other two disks contain all sorts of often written system stuff
> (/var, /run) and all sorts of partitions meant to hold my data. Those
> are formatted GPT, and don't boot at all.
>