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Congratulations!

Posted Jun 29, 2012 14:12 UTC (Fri) by cortana (subscriber, #24596)
In reply to: Congratulations! by joib
Parent article: GRUB 2.00 released

I think GRUB's decision to use a dedicated partition was borne of past experience--for example, some DRM software happily assumes it's OK to scribble over sectors in the gap... since partitions are not as scare a resource with GPT as their were with MBR, the balance is tipped in favour of having a dedicated partition to prevent this kind of thing happening again.


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