1 Topic by falsedust

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Topic: Disk Labels

Can someone explain to me what the other disk labels are for, BSD,Mac,GPT etc.
I use Ubuntu and was curious as to why I had to have my HD's using a MSDOS disk label?
Also what is the result of using the other disk labels?

2 Reply by LarryT

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Re: Disk Labels

This i cant explain you, but Plors (the GParted soft dev) will asap smile

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Re: Disk Labels

Can someone please answer my query?
Also because of the Linux BIOS does that mean there will be a linux disk label?

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Re: Disk Labels

I am sorry but i can tell you. I will try again to contact Plors ...

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5 Reply by Pixel (edited by Pixel 2007-03-19 06:11:26)

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Re: Disk Labels

"A disklabel is a record stored on a data storage device such as a hard disk that contains information about the location of the partitions on the disk."

Don't know about the different types.

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Re: Disk Labels

I was experimenting with a drive and found that if I'd been using it on my mac it was given a mac label and would then not accept extended partitions.

I guess it applies a rule set to drive which defines what partitions are allowed and not allowed.