It also removes that annoying limitation of four "real" partitions, which occasionally causes problems when you hit the limit of four and don't have an extended partition yet, or when you split a partition near the beginning. Not as good as LVM, but more convenient than the dos format.
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Date: 2011-11-23 12:03 am (UTC)