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Andries Brouwer wrote:
> 
> Concerning one, it is a somewhat complicated format that takes over
> your disk, rather inconvenient. It seems to me that one needs a good
> reason (like a BIOS that understands the format and is able to boot
> from it) to choose it.
> 

Not really; it's actually a very simple table.

	-hpa