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   <H1>[Mageia-discuss] UEFI and Secure Boot</H1>
    <B>Maurice Batey</B> 
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    <I>Sat Aug 25 12:34:17 CEST 2012</I>
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<PRE>On Fri, 24 Aug 2012 17:56:43 -0400, andre999 wrote:

&gt;<i> GPT is a much cleaner and more secure partition table format.
</I>&gt;<i> The usual (virtually standard) configuration is space for 128 partitions.
</I>&gt;<i> No extended partitions are permitted.
</I>&gt;<i> Partition size is virtually unlimited.  (Limited by the operating
</I>&gt;<i> system.)
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  Sounds good, though probably overkill for the purposes of a netbook!

&gt;<i> Gdisk, in Mageia repos, lets you convert an MBR partition table to 
</I>&gt;<i> GPT, as long as you make a little space at the end of the drive for
</I>&gt;<i> the (required) backup table.
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  Mmm. Didn't know about that.
Presumably one would use e.g. Gparted to make the 'little space'.
    Would need to find a way of getting 'live' Gdisk on a flash drive
for booting. Is there such a version?

Many thanks for all the clarifications, Andr&#233;! Much appreciated...
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/\/\aurice 
	

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