Tom H <tomh0...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 9:04 AM, Chris Davies <ch...@roaima.co.uk> wrote: >> I assume the 1MB space at the beginning is for grub_boot? I found I >> needed that for my big (3TB) GPT disks. What's the space required at >> the end of the disk?
> A gpt disk needs 34 sectors at its beginning; the 0th is the mbr, the > 1st is the gpt header, the 2nd-33rd are for the partition table (for > 128 possible partitions at 128 bytes per partition). And it needs 33 > sectors at its end; it's the same as the beginning minus the mbr. What does it use those sectors at the end for? A duplicate of the ones at the front? If so, do parted and other partitioning tools write to both? Thanks, Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/iamnjax5f2....@news.roaima.co.uk
