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On Sun, 27 Dec 2020 01:07:58 +0000, antlists wrote: |
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> > UEFI is dead simple, and you can use gdisk, which is the GPT variant |
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> > of fdisk. So that only leave the boot manager to learn, and if you |
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> > don't already know GRUB, I'd say start with something simpler. |
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> I got the impression that on newer systems, gdisk and fdisk were the |
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> same thing ... |
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> Certainly I moved to gdisk because "fdisk can't handle GPTs", and then |
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> someone said "oh yes it can" so I investigated and oh yes it could. I |
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> still use gdisk, but as I say they now appear to be the same thing. |
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Indeed, GPT support has now been added to fdisk. So all versions of gdisk |
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handle GPT while recent versions of fdisk do it. That's why I recommend |
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gdisk, to be certain of using a version with GPT support. |
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Neil Bothwick |
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The trouble with doing something right the first time is that nobody |
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appreciates how difficult it was. |
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