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Operating Systems Linux Fedora Disk Paritioning Scheme--GPT or MBR Post 302704017 by fpmurphy on Thursday 20th of September 2012 07:10:43 PM
Old 09-20-2012
Quote:
Originally Posted by Lem
MBR is okay.

GPT is needed:
a) when you want a partition to be bigger than 2GB, or when at least one of your partitions has to begin beyond the first 2GB of its disk;
MBR partitions can be greater than 2Gb. GPT is required when your disk is greater than approx 2Tb and using 512 sector sizes.
 

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sda(7D) 							      Devices								   sda(7D)

NAME
sda - SD/MMC architecture DESCRIPTION
The sda module provides support services for Secure Digital (SD) and MultiMediaCard (MMC) slot and card device drivers. FILES
/kernel/misc/sda 32-bit ELF kernel module (x86). /kernel/misc/amd64/sda 64-bit ELF kernel module (x86). /kernel/misc/sparcv9/sda 64-bit ELF kernel module (SPARC). ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for a description of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Architecture |SPARC, x86 | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWsdcard | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
cfgadm_sdcard(1M), attributes(5), blk2scsa(7D), sd(7D), sdcard(7D), sdhost(7D), scsa2usb(7D), wbsd(7D) System Administration Guide, Volume I System Administration Guide: Basic Administration NOTES
The sda module provides support only for SD/MMC devices that are connected via a supported slot driver. Notably, slots that are on USB busses are normally treated as USB mass storage devices and are serviced by the scsa2usb(7D) driver. SunOS 5.11 8 Jan 2009 sda(7D)
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