[parted-devel] How large is a GPT?

[Phillip Susi]

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

On 12/28/2011 05:50 PM, Håkon Løvdal wrote:
> Since the first partition starts at 1MB there is space available in front
> of this, so I want to create this BIOS Boot Partition so that it starts
> right after the GPT and spans up til the start of the /boot partition.

FYI, you shouldn't need a dedicated /boot partition.

> So my question then is, how do I find the exact size of the GPT?
> Should I leave some free space between the GPT and the BIOS
> Boot Partition, and if so how much?

The GPT is usually in the first 64kb so you can create a bios_grub partition between sector 129 and 2048.
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux)
Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/

iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJO++9gAAoJEJrBOlT6nu75mswH/3Ecx4ndCGIlmdWnfP5pt04l
+HYBeZlDVWPbgTV8BbVExQfXqeiNogDxwWAsSgpLDwDEOfaTTgjbrdCTWoXeUK3E
0NdMt42rw1GCqH9QXCaaswi6BoA+PLgLIK54fdINh7j+3kx5asVMeSOfAcHFCXTO
sbNgFFW3Mk1Cf02qFCk8xhJPrCsvkQwnSwpw68UpesqHa6wQ4sogPOyIUkzKnIoS
AhEvu12JqcE2YFCyKaQdvfJN2I9hahW0zL/5UDagL0Q5Za6G5746lM08rOgbH9U+
ePQELAdgPUrkl1hO7fBC2dEYce7XFVWGj0H5qPNBxx8R2DvnwVMPPpYw/AVedSU=
=Fzdx
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----