Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (517 mails)

[Roman Bysh <rbtc1@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 07/06/2010 04:13 PM, Arvin Schnell wrote:
> 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

I'm still at a loss how the entire drive was visible in openSUSE 11.3 M4
but not 11.3 RC1/RC2? User error or bug in kernel?

-- 
Cheers!

Roman
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