Re: free space before the first and after the last partition if GPT partition scheme is used

2014-05-11 Thread Sven Hartge
Martin T wrote: > for some reason, I do not see those partitions with gdisk: > http://i.imgur.com/4BlDQx7.jpg On the other hand, I'm also using older > version(0.8.5 vs 0.8.8) of gdisk than you.. Or is there some other > reason? No. If gdisk does not show any special boot partition then there is

Re: free space before the first and after the last partition if GPT partition scheme is used

2014-05-11 Thread Martin T
Sven, for some reason, I do not see those partitions with gdisk: http://i.imgur.com/4BlDQx7.jpg On the other hand, I'm also using older version(0.8.5 vs 0.8.8) of gdisk than you.. Or is there some other reason? In addition, while your gdisk output says that you have 0B of free space, then I have 1

Re: free space before the first and after the last partition if GPT partition scheme is used

2014-05-11 Thread Sven Hartge
Martin T wrote: > I see. Thanks! Are those "bios_grub" or "EFI system" partitions > located inside the GPT scheme, i.e. inside the first ~16KiB of the > disk and it is not seen with gdisk? In addition, if this small area > after the last partition is also for alignment purposes, then where is > t

Re: free space before the first and after the last partition if GPT partition scheme is used

2014-05-11 Thread Martin T
Sven, I see. Thanks! Are those "bios_grub" or "EFI system" partitions located inside the GPT scheme, i.e. inside the first ~16KiB of the disk and it is not seen with gdisk? In addition, if this small area after the last partition is also for alignment purposes, then where is the backup GPT stored?

Re: free space before the first and after the last partition if GPT partition scheme is used

2014-05-11 Thread Sven Hartge
Martin T wrote: > 2) Am I correct that boot loaders use their code on this area after > the primary GPT and before the first partition? No. Bootloaders store their code in a special "bios_grub" partition (type EF02) when using the CSM/BIOS boot mode or inside a EFI System partion when using EFI

free space before the first and after the last partition if GPT partition scheme is used

2014-05-10 Thread Martin T
Hi, DebianInstaller shows "FREE SPACE" before the first partition and after the last partition if GPT scheme is used: http://i.imgur.com/qjNrdAx.jpg While there is nothing wrong with that as there is indeed some free space before the first partition and after the last partition(http://i.imgur.com/