Out of Space

[Gene Heskett]

On Sunday 07 August 2016 17:42:10 Oliver Grawert wrote:

> hi,
>
> On So, 2016-08-07 at 22:27 +0200, Nils Kassube wrote:
> > 
> >
> > As I understand it, the location of the kernel was important in the 
> > early days of Linux when we used LILO (and disk space was counted in
> > MB, 
> > not GB/TB). Nowadays the kernel is loaded by GRUB2 which reads the
> > file 
> > system and should find the kernel at any position on the disk [1].
>
> well, "nowadays" you would probably also just be clever enough to use
> a GPT and not have to deal with stuff like primary or extended
> partitions ...
> MSDOS partition tables are an anachronism from the last century ...
>
> ;)
>
> ciao
> 	oli

And what tool can do that so that an installer can see it and use it?
The last issue of gparted I pulled and burned about a year ago now, has 
no idea about this top secret GPT partitioning method I see referenced 
but never a mention of what disk preparation tool does this...

Thanks Oli.

Cheers, Gene Heskett
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