[GRLUG] Linux & GPT

Kyle dontwantspam1 at earthlink.net
Tue Sep 7 15:50:14 EDT 2010


Can't speak from experience on this, but according to Wikipedia Fedora 
started supporting it in version 8 and Ubuntu in 8.04.  As I understand 
it, CentOS 5.5's based on RHEL 5.5, which is based on Fedora Core 6, 
which is why it doesn't support GPT.

- Kyle



On 9/7/2010 3:38 PM, L. V. Lammert wrote:
> I was very surprised to see that CentOS did not support GPT [for 
> partitions bigger than 2T], .. and also that there were no simple 
> solutions [other than hacking the kernel and dropping on a different 
> grub].
>
> Does any Linux distro support GPT without tweaking it?
>
>     Lee
>
>


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