what disklabel to set on a hd I am reusing for a Linux only system

[Rashkae]

Robert Swanson wrote:

> 	The problem is, that I have an older 80Gig drive that I couldn't access with 
> Gparted.  I was forced to put the drive in an xp box and use partition magic 
> just to access the drive.  Now I have it back in the Linux box and I can 
> access the drive, but the program is now asking me what label I want to use.  
> The two appropriate choices are msdos, or GPT, is it OK to use gpt?  Will 
> Kubuntu 6.06 be able to read it?
> Thanks 
> Bob
> 

I don't know, and I'm feeling too lazy to look it up, but in this case, 
I would say, why not stay with the old and true msdos? (this is the disk 
layout needed for fdisk, cfdisk and friends.)  For the sake of an 80GB 
drive going into an older system, I don't think you have to worry about 
overcoming the limits of the old paritioning scheme... (and I believe 
that GPT will need bios support to boot as well, so msdos is probably 
your only choice regardless of 2006 kernel.