[mythtv-users] GPT disk partitioning

[Rod Smith]

Hi,

Since MythTV users are frequently on the bleeding edge of disk storage, at 
least for personal Linux systems, I thought I'd point out my new programming 
project, GPT fdisk:

http://www.rodsbooks.com/gdisk/index.html

This is a tool that's modeled roughly after Linux fdisk, but for modifying 
GUID Partition Table (GPT) disks rather than MBR disks. If you don't 
understand why this is important, the project page to which I linked includes 
some background information. In brief, you'll be forced to use GPT for the 
over-2 TiB disks that will be appearing before too long, as well as for 
certain hardware RAID configurations today. GPT also offers some minor data 
safety advantages for smaller disks, in the form of partition checksums and 
data structure backups. Currently, GNU Parted can handle GPT disks, but it's 
a little quirky with them.

If you're interested in this sort of tool, I'd appreciate feedback and bug 
reports; but note that to date I'm the only person who's run my program, so 
you should consider it alpha quality. DO NOT USE IT ON A PRODUCTION SYSTEM!

-- 
Rod Smith