Setup_storage driving me nuts

[Thomas Neumann]

On Friday 04 April 2014 17:34:41 Sven Schumacher wrote:
> 6 primary partitions is for msdos-based partitioning to much, and even
> gpt - I think - still has this limit of 4 primary partions.

Reasonably close. It's 128.

>> First, hardware is not my strength, and I don't know much about the
>> ins and outs of MSDOS vs GPT, etc.  But I figure part of the point of
>> setup_storage is that we don't need to - it should just do the right
>> thing.

It's easy. Always use GPT and forget about MSDOS. Except it isn't. Some well 
known operating system vendors insist on using MSDOS in legacy and GPT in 
UEFI-enabled installations. Technically there's no reason for this.

Since setup_storage may or may not be used in dual-boot setups and there may 
be other quirks (bug in RAID controller?) it's a bit dangerous to guess the 
'correct' value.

My rule of thumb is to always use GPT. But then I don't have to care about 
Windows installations and my hardware is GPT-safe.

bye
thomas