On Jun 5, 2007, at 3:41 PM, De Zeurkous wrote:

> Personally, I believe the GPT system is overkill, as well. Most UNIX  
> (and
> some  other) systems AFAIK either use their own disk slices and/or  
> aren't
> used intensively in multiboot configurations; the deployment of the
> remaining (semi-popular) OSes is seldom planned seriously.
>
> The only thing which would benefit from it, at least that I can  
> think of,
> is Lunix -- but they make a mess of everything, anyway.

NetBSD decided to migrate to GPT long before Apple even announced that  
they were making the Intel transition.

GPT has absolutely nothing to do with multi-booting or anything of  
that nonsense.  It has everything to do with being able to support  
very large disks and having descriptive partition names.

-- thorpej