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| Newer page: | version 5 | Last edited on Thursday, June 23, 2005 6:21:26 am | by IanMcDonald | Revert |
| Older page: | version 4 | Last edited on Thursday, June 23, 2005 4:56:46 am | by AristotlePagaltzis | Revert |
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[Acronym] for __G__UID __P__artition __T__able
-[GPT] was introduced for iA64 systems, to get around a ''fixed 32 bit issue (AddToMe: what
the heck's that supposed to mean?
)''
in the [PC]-[BIOS] [Partition] table. [Partition]s larger than 2 TB require using a [GPT] disklabel, which differs from the [PC]-[BIOS] [Partition] table in a number of ways:
+[GPT] was introduced for iA64 systems, to get around a ''fixed 32 bit issue''
(2 to
the power of 32 is 4 billion times a 512 byte block equals 2 Terabytes
) in the [PC]-[BIOS] [Partition] table. [Partition]s larger than 2 TB require using a [GPT] disklabel, which differs from the [PC]-[BIOS] [Partition] table in a number of ways:
* Is easily extensible.
* Can contain up to 128 primary partitions, as opposed to 4, so there's no need for extended partitions.
* Allows [Partition]s larger than 2 TB.
