On Tue, Jul 06, 2010 at 12:50:36PM -0400, Roman Bysh wrote:
On 07/06/2010 12:22 PM, Arvin Schnell wrote:
On Tue, Jul 06, 2010 at 11:50:55AM -0400, Greg Freemyer wrote:
If so, GPT support for data drives should have been in openSUSE for a long while now. (ie. maybe 11.1) and it not working is clearly a bug somewhere along the line. Possibly specific to the drive.
YaST supports GPT since several (7-8) years. It was added for IA64.
The hard disk in bug #617288 has a MSDOS partition table.
As to GPT boot drives, obviously that requires a EFI compliant system.
This is not entirely true. For GPT the parted on openSUSE also writes an MSDOS partition table to allow booting with grub. It's likely not tested well since most hard disks still have an MSDOS partition table.
ciao Arvin
So when installing a 2T Seagate, the user should have selected GPT.
Disk with 2TB have less than 2TiB. So MSDOS partition table is still ok. But you don't have to get out your dusty pocket calculator. When selecting "Create new Partition Table" in YaST you can only choose between MSDOS and GPT for disk smaller than 2TiB. For disk larger than 2TiB GPT is always selected. To be more precise this applies to disks with 512B logical sectors. For disks with 4KiB logical sectors the limit is 16TiB. But latter has almost not been tested since we simply do not have such hard disks.
Would this not have wiped out Window 7 64 bit?
Sure, changing the partition table deletes all partitions thus
all data.
ciao Arvin
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Arvin Schnell,